INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis mother is in jail accused of child neglect for the second time.
Court records show the suspect was on probation for a deadly case of child neglect when police were called to investigate a new case this week.
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At an apartment complex along Troy Avenue, an 8-year-old girl called her grandmother crying and saying she’d been left home alone for most of the last two weeks looking after her three younger siblings, including a 4-month-old.
According to the affidavit in the case, the girls’ grandmother then called police who found the home littered with food and trash and no sheets on the beds. That led to the arrest of 27-year-old Tenisha Echols for child neglect.
The suspect’s own mother told FOX59/CBS4 she’s not surprised her own daughter ended up back in jail, accused of child neglect, because the suspect got a slap on the wrist and didn’t learn a lesson from a previous child neglect case two years ago…