An Iowa mother avoided prison time after her toddler fell out of a second-story window while she was in the parking lot.
Angelia Varner, 35, pleaded guilty to felony neglect of a dependent person on Monday, months after her youngest child, a 23-month-old, fell out of her apartment’s second-story window on Aug. 14. The child was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. As Law&Crime previously reported, Varner put her oldest child, a 9-year-old, in charge of her two younger children “for a few minutes” while she left the apartment and went out to the parking lot.
While Varner was away from her three children, Neighbors watched her youngest fall 12 feet from a window, police said…