A worried woman called the police to report the sound of a child crying and screaming from one of the apartments in the block. The police noticed a little girl standing in the window. She was crying and screaming for help. It turned out that her mother had gone to a friend's “for a beer”. The mother whose two-year-old son was playing alone by the pond was also drunk. She didn't see anything wrong with it, because “it wasn't the first time he had been there and he had never fallen in”.
On Thursday, September 19, at approximately 11:25 p.m., the police were alerted by a concerned neighbour that a child was crying and screaming from one of the apartments in Wyszków.
– The police officers who arrived at the scene saw a little girl standing in the window of the apartment, calling for help. The child was crying, afraid to be home alone. The officers took action to help the frightened four-year-old. The girl managed to turn the handle in the window, through which the police officers got her out and took care of her – describes in the statement junior asp. Wioleta Szymanik from the police in Wyszków. – At about 1 a.m., the child's drunk mother appeared at the scene of the intervention, from which it results from her account that she left the apartment while the girl was sleeping, leaving her unattended, and then went to a friend's, where she drank a beer “for company”.
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A breathalyzer test showed that the 47-year-old had more than 1.5 per mille of alcohol in her system. She was detained and taken to a police cell.
A drunk mother was sleeping, a two-year-old boy was playing alone by the pond
The court will decide her fate, just like that of another mother who was sleeping drunk in a camping trailer while her two-year-old son was walking alone by a pond.
On Tuesday at around 11 a.m., police officers from the Długosiodło police station went to one of the plots in Poręba Średnia, where, according to the report, a camping trailer had been parked for some time, in which a mother and child were staying. The woman was supposed to be taking care of the child while drunk.
At the scene, they noticed a two-year-old boy walking alone right next to an unsecured pond. The child looked neglected. The officers immediately took care of the boy. They called an ambulance and employees of the Municipal Social Welfare Center to the scene, to whom they handed over the two-year-old.
– After entering the trailer, it turned out that the boy's mother was sleeping there, completely drunk. The officers could not wake the woman, who after a few dozen minutes woke up, claiming that she had been drinking vodka until the night, and the child “had played by himself by the pond many times and had never fallen into it” – says junior asp. Wioleta Szymanik.
After conducting a blood alcohol test, it turned out that the 42-year-old resident of Ostrów County had almost three per mille. The woman was taken to a police cell, and the boy to the care of a foster family.
The woman has already been charged with exposing her son to immediate danger of loss of life or serious harm to health. She faces up to five years in prison.
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