Mother Left Her 5MO Baby Home Alone While She Drank

[Sugar Cookie]

Police said a woman left her 5-month-old baby home alone in Mesa to go out and drink.

Police stopped 23-year-old Clare Margaret Meacham's vehicle after receiving calls around 2:20 p.m. about a possible drunk driver. After being put in handcuffs for suspected DUI, Meacham told officers that she may have left her baby home alone, according to court documents.

Officers drove to her home in east Mesa, and said they could hear a child crying from outside of the house. Police entered the home, got the child and then called the Department of Child Safety and waited for a family member to take custody of the baby, who was uninjured.

Police said they checked Meacham’s doorbell camera video and noted that she left home at 12:44 p.m., over 2 hours before police located the baby. Meacham told police that she placed her child in the baby crib and didn’t remember anything after that, records show, and that she didn’t try to contact anyone to watch her child
while she went out.

Mother left her 5-month-old baby home alone while she drank, Mesa police say

Police said they checked Meacham’s doorbell camera video and noted that she left home at 12:44 p.m., over 2 hours before police located the baby.

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[thuumpr]

Two hours to get that drunk? I'm thinking she started the night before and went to pick up supplies.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Did she think telling the police she might have left her baby home alone was going to be her get out of jail free card?

 

[Hermy]

It may not be such a bad thing that she got drunk while she was away from the baby. Otherwise, she could have gotten wasted and passed out on top of the baby, killing it.