Mother abandons four children to travel to Las Vegas
50-year-old woman left underage children without normal food and medicine, and learned about the injury of his son, made them a scandal on the speakerphone.
In Florida, a scandal broke out that shocked even local law enforcement officers. 50-year-old Irene Miller, working as a photographer, decided to go on a business trip to Las Vegas for five days, leaving at home her four children, aged between nine and 14 years without any supervision.
The conditions in which teenagers find themselves are hardly acceptable. According to police, there was no normal food at home: the children ate instant noodles, cereal and Oreo biscuits. Moreover, they were all sick at the time, and the mother left them only expired medications.
The children's father and neighbors were alarmed. A man went to police after a neighbour reported a teenager skateboarding alone in the dead of night. The officers who arrived at the scene could not reach their mother and get into the apartment.
The climax came the next day when a heavy dumbbell fell on one of the boys. The children had to call 911 themselves. The victim was urgently hospitalized.
The mother's reaction to the incident was original. Upon learning of the call to the emergency services, the woman contacted her eldest son and scolded the children over the speakerphone for “raising panic” and calling rescuers, instead of coping with their own efforts.
On October 23, Miller was detained at the Orlando airport after returning from a trip. She was charged with four counts of endangering the lives and health of children. According to the laws of the state of Florida, for such irresponsible behavior, a woman faces up to twenty years in prison, writes Gazeta.ru.
