Mother Leaves Young Child in Charge of Baby
The bodycam video captures a deeply concerning situation at an apartment complex, where a police officer responds after a six-year-old girl named Kennedy is found wandering through the hallways. What begins as a welfare check quickly turns into a troubling look at how much responsibility had been placed on a very young child. Kennedy is not simply outside playing or briefly separated from an adult. According to what she tells the officer, her mother left her alone inside the apartment and expected her to look after her baby brother, Devon….