The LaPorte County Prosecutor’s Office may file child neglect charges against three adults after a 12-month old was reportedly seen wandering outside the Country Acres Apartments Tuesday wearing only a diaper. When officers from the LaPorte Police Department arrived, they found the child’s father holding the boy. The man told the officers he came to the apartment the night before to visit a female friend. A second woman was also there, according to a news release from the LaPorte Police Department. The adults drank together, and all three grownups and their four respective children spent the night. The man told the officers he and the mother of two of the children got up the next morning and took his oldest child to school. When they came home, he told the officers he found his son outside alone. Witnesses reportedly told the police they saw the child and checked the apartment from which they thought he came. They found a woman passed out inside the apartment holding a beer, according to the police report, which indicates she seemed intoxicated when they woke her up. The woman was reportedly in charge of children ranging in ages from 1 through 4. The man told the officers he didn’t think she was still drunk when he left.
