Authorities said they determined the child was left alone for about 30 minutes.
A Michigan mother was arrested on Friday for allegedly abandoning her children for several years, leaving them in deplorable conditions, according to officials.
Police say that a 25-year-old woman was arrested and released without paying bond after allegedly leaving her 2-year-old home alone in an apartment that caught fire while she was gone.
A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years.
A woman has been arrested after leaving her son unattended along a road, allowing him to run off in the night following a tantrum and falsely reporting a kidnapping.
Prosecutors say Kendrick Lee's case was one of the most "horrific" cases of child abuse they've seen. Now, years after the gruesome discovery, the young victim's mother will spend 50 years in jail for her role in his death.