Parents arrested after 11-year-old son was found home alone over the holidays [View all]
The parents of an 11-year-old boy were arrested in Arizona this week after sheriff's deputies alleged he was left alone at home and had not attended school for at least two weeks.
On Dec. 12, sheriff's officials received a call about a welfare check at a home off of Coral Lane in Elfrida, Cochise County Sheriff's Office posted on social media. The caller reported a boy was possibly there alone for an undetermined length of time.
Deputies went to the home and found the boy alone. The boy's mother had left to go out of state before Thanksgiving, and his father followed shortly after Thanksgiving, according to sheriff's officials.
The boy had been alone until deputies arrived. He told deputies that he had frozen food, and he had not been to school for at least the two prior weeks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/04/arizona-parents-left-11-year-old-alone/9087123002/
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