Tenisha Echols, 27, had just 41 days left on her two-year probation period when she was arrested by police on June 9
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- Tenisha Echols, 27, is accused of leaving her children — 8, 6, 2 and four months — home alone while she went to visit her girlfriend, according to a probable cause affidavit
- She is now charged with four counts of child neglect, and at the time of her arrest on June 9, was still serving probation for a 2019 case of neglect related to her six-month old child’s death
- Echols’ mother said she got a call from her 8-year-old granddaughter when she could not locate her mother
An Indiana mother is in custody after police allege she left her four children home alone to spend time with her girlfriend.
Tenisha Echols, 27, is now charged with four felony counts of child neglect after her oldest child, an 8-year-old girl, called her grandmother to say she and three siblings — including a four-month-old infant — could not find their mother and needed help, according to a copy of a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
It is not the first time Echols has found herself charged with child neglect…