Woman Arrested for Negligence
Posted/updated on: February 22, 2011 at 10:31 am
LONGVIEW — Child Protective Services took temporary custody of two children Thursday from a Longview mother charged with negligence. Longview police say they found Kimberly Flores’s two small children, ages 2 and 3, in the yard of their Eden Drive home unsupervised with soiled diapers. Flores faces two counts of endangering a child, a state jail felony. She remained in the Gregg County Jail without bond Friday morning. Officers were called to her home in the 1700 block of Eden Drive shortly before noon Thursday on an assist-child call from CPS. There, they found the two toddlers walking in the yard unsupervised.
“I went inside and found (Flores) passed out in a room upstairs in the bed,” police said in an arrest report. “She did not respond when I called out to her, or when I shined my flashlight in her partially opened eyes. I touched her arm, and she jumped up asking where her children were.”
Both children had gone down two flights of “steep stairs” and gotten into the refrigerator to eat chocolate cupcakes, and both diapers were “obviously full of urine and feces,” the report showed. Police said the 3-year-old child opened the front door when someone knocked on it and went outside by her herself.
