Woman accused of leaving kids home alone in house that had no food
A Harrison, PA, woman is facing multiple charges of child endangerment after Harrison police say she left her four children alone in a mostly empty home along Garfield Street in Natrona for roughly nine hours. Police officers were called to the scene around 7:30 p.m. Friday on a report that several unattended children, about 2 to 3 years old, were “hanging” out of a second story window of the residence. Police charged Deondra Bundy, 30, with four counts of endangering the welfare of children and four counts of recklessly endangering another person.
They arrived to find two boys leaning out of an open window on the second floor. The officers went upstairs where they found an empty room and another room that was locked from the inside. Officers forced their way into the locked room, where they found the four children. The two boys were still leaning out of the window, and two others, a boy and a girl, were face down on a bare mattress. Near the boy on the mattress there was some liquid on the floor, possibly urine or vomit, police wrote. Officers also could hear an infant child inside the residence screaming. Neighbors told police that the mother leaves them almost every day.
Once inside, police wrote in court documents, officers found mostly empty rooms. Some had bare mattresses while others had nothing. There was nothing in the kitchen cupboards, nor was there a refrigerator; there appeared to be no food at all in the residence.
Police asked where the parents were, and were told that Bundy had left to go to the store at 2 p.m. Around 11 p.m., police were contacted by Allegheny County 911 and told that Bundy had returned home, but fled when a neighbor tried to talk to her. Shortly after, another police officer made a traffic stop on an SUV, and found Bundy in the passenger seat. At that point she was arrested. She was arrested late Friday night and remained in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh on Sunday in lieu of $10,000 cash bail.
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