Woman found unresponsive with food cooking on stove charged with child neglect

DUNBAR, WV (WOWK) – A lady observed unresponsive in her home has been charged with child neglect in Dunbar, West Virginia.

According to a legal criticism from the Kanawha County Justice of the peace Clerk’s Office, an officer with the Dunbar police responded to a home on Maple Avenue in Dunbar close to 11 p.m. Saturday, May well 21, 2022 about a achievable overdose. The officer suggests he saw a female, identified as Sydney McCracken, 22, lying unresponsive in the residing place currently being addressed by firefighters.

The officer says they spoke with an additional man or woman on scene who told the officer she had arrived at the home and allegedly observed the key continue to in the locking system of the entrance doorway. The female claims she observed McCracken lying unresponsive against the front door when she entered the home.

Law enforcement say the girl also uncovered two tiny young children in the household when she arrived, a single of whom was McCracken’s child and the other was a buddy of her child’s. Firefighters told the officer that the kids had been “very frantic” when they arrived on the scene. The fire office also instructed the officer they allegedly saw food getting cooked on the stove and say, from their experienced thoughts, the cooking food could have caused a hearth if it hadn’t been removed from the stove.

McCracken has been charged with little one neglect creating chance of injury.