5 Children Home Alone While Mothers Partied

North Caroline, Union County, USA – Two Union women face child neglect charges after police say they left their five children – ages 8 to 1 – home alone while they went to a party in another town.

Gale Lindeman, 26, and Mikicia Byrd, 25, were arrested Friday and charged with unlawful conduct toward a child. According to Union Public Safety reports, the incident occurred on October 18th. At 11:15pm an officer was called to Rose Hill Garden Apartments for a separate incident when he found the women’s five children had been left alone.

A 7-year old girl told the officer her mother had left around 8:00pm to go to a party in Spartanburg. The girl was left with her younger siblings, ages 3 and 1, and two other children, ages 8 and 4. Police reports say Lindeman’s mother came home 30 minutes later and told the officer she thought her daughter was watching the children.

The woman called Lindeman and let the officer speak to her. He says Lindeman told him she thought her mother was watching the children.

Chief Sam White says the children were placed in emergency protective custody and taken by DSS. He says it took the investigator several days to determine who was telling the truth about who was supposed to be watching the children, which is why the women were not arrested until Friday. Both women are out of jail on bond.

Byrd’s daughter told the officer her mother had left them alone several times.

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