An Indianapolis mother who avoided prison time for a 2019 child neglect case that resulted in her infant daughter’s death is back in jail, now accused of leaving her four young children home alone for weeks, with an 8-year-old acting as the primary caregiver.
The case against Tenisha Echols, 27, has sparked renewed outrage and is raising serious questions about the justice system’s handling of child abuse cases in Marion County.
Police were called to an apartment on Troy Avenue this week after the children’s grandmother received a tearful phone call from her 8-year-old granddaughter. According to the affidavit, the child told her grandmother she was home alone and had been left to care for her three younger siblings, including a 4-month-old infant, for most of the past two weeks…