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Jilly_in_VA

(9,852 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 03:55 PM Jan 2022

Parents arrested after 11-year-old son was found home alone over the holidays

The parents of an 11-year-old boy were arrested in Arizona this week after sheriff's deputies alleged he was left alone at home and had not attended school for at least two weeks.

On Dec. 12, sheriff's officials received a call about a welfare check at a home off of Coral Lane in Elfrida, Cochise County Sheriff's Office posted on social media. The caller reported a boy was possibly there alone for an undetermined length of time.

Deputies went to the home and found the boy alone. The boy's mother had left to go out of state before Thanksgiving, and his father followed shortly after Thanksgiving, according to sheriff's officials.

The boy had been alone until deputies arrived. He told deputies that he had frozen food, and he had not been to school for at least the two prior weeks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/04/arizona-parents-left-11-year-old-alone/9087123002/

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Parents arrested after 11-year-old son was found home alone over the holidays (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 OP
So I guess had he gone to school, no one would have known. Alone for an hour or two after LoisB Jan 2022 #1
Poor kid... hard to survive intact with such an upbringing. Karadeniz Jan 2022 #2
On the whole I would agree but sdfernando Jan 2022 #3
Come on here Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #4

LoisB

(7,072 posts)
1. So I guess had he gone to school, no one would have known. Alone for an hour or two after
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 05:24 PM
Jan 2022

school and before mom/dad get home from work okay (depending on other factors), but two weeks? Great parenting.

sdfernando

(4,896 posts)
3. On the whole I would agree but
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:51 PM
Jan 2022

we don't know what the kids upbringing is. This could have been a two week respite from hell.

Jilly_in_VA

(9,852 posts)
4. Come on here
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 11:46 AM
Jan 2022

Just what are you implying? Hell for him, or for the parents? Your post is ambiguous at best. Clarification is a welcome necessity.

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