I need his name. I'm going to document that he lives here cuz I already know what he looks like. That way if we get another call about him wandering around. >> What if I'm grown to the children in the second degree? >> What? How is this the fourth time? Y'ALL DON'T EVEN HAVE PROOF. WHAT DID I DO? I ain't do nothing legally. >> It was a heartbreaking sight on October 1st, 2024 when a 3-year-old boy was found wandering alone near a busy highway wearing nothing but a loaded diaper. He almost became a hood ornament on a busy road [music] because his guardians were lost in dreamland. It was a terrifying reality where a tiny human had to navigate a dangerous world all by himself. >> We don't know who he belongs to and this is the second time >> he's been in the office in the week >> and he almost got hit by a car. >> He just Where is he walking around at? >> He just walked around the gate and came to the office. >> Whoa, man. >> And he don't speak. He doesn't Do you know what building you live in? >> Could you point it out to me? >> You can't take me to your house. >> How old you are? >> How old are you? >> Yes. >> Can you show me on your hands? >> Yes. >> How How old are you? >> Three. >> Three. >> Three. >> Three. >> Okay. Do you know what building you stay in? >> She lives down. Do you live down there? >> Yes. >> You want to walk down? Do you want to take me to your house? >> Yes. >> All right. >> One of y'all mind coming with me? I don't know if this is going to work or not, but it's better not. All right. We're going to follow you. You're going You're going to walk us down there. Okay. >> Yeah. Now go talk to your mom. >> Who is Is this Is this your >> Yo, give me your mom. >> Is this Is that your mom's kid is your kid? Who's Whose child does that belong to? >> This is my brother. >> Okay, this is the second time in a week. >> How does this keep happening? >> Okay, so look, I was sleep. Me and my sister, we were asleep. Okay. >> My little brother, he was He was supposed to be sleep. >> The only reason he keep going outside, I don't know why cuz like he just be going outside. >> We keep trying to lock the doors, but he keep trying like he he keeps unlocking it. Like he keep walking. He he keep unlocking both of these locks. I don't know why he wants us for no reason. First it be on the balcony, but then he then I'm so mad, bro. >> Okay, I'm not trying to How old are How old are y'all? >> 14 16. Okay, y'all are kids, so I'm not going to blame y'all. I love that. When the officer finally tracked down the apartment, [music] he was met with a total lack of urgency. The 14 and 16-year-old siblings were just hanging out, claiming they were asleep, [music] completely unaware their toddler brother was dodging traffic outside. It was obvious they were trying to escape from the [music] stupidity of their own home life. The sister actually tried to blame the locks instead of their own lack of supervision. >> Since you're you're older, keeping a better eye on him. Realistically, this falls on your mom. This is the second time in a week. Was he in diapers the last time, too? >> I don't know. >> You need No, you need to blame my mom because she's at work and like she don't she re she can't really be um be at the house all the time. >> I I get that, but at the end of the day, it's it's her kid, right? At the end of the day, she's solely responsible. We can't have we can't have two and threeyear-olds walking around an apartment complex in the middle of daylight and wearing nothing but diapers. There's cars. There's random people up there. Like we don't does this can does he unlock this or what does he do or does it not lock? >> Okay, so they changed the locks. I don't know why. Stupid. >> So what he be doing? He unlocked the bottom lock first and then he unlocked the top lock. >> He open the door and then he just >> I don't know how this happened the last time we tried to fix it but he keep just going out. >> Here's what I'm going to do to at least if this problem happens again. I need his name. I'm going to document that he lives here cuz I already know what he looks like. That way if we get another call about him wandering around, we can pull the report number and we can bring him back to y'all. Cuz what if this lady and that guy down there isn't there? You know what I mean? We'll know where to bring him back. Hopefully it doesn't, but I need his last name. >> The very next [music] morning, the same toddler was out for another stroll. Detective Vanish was not playing games when he confronted the mother about her child almost being run over at 6:55 a.m. She tried to lie and say it happened days ago, but the detective had the receipts. It was a bold move to try and gaslight the police when your kid is a local highway celebrity. >> Hello. >> Hey, good morning, Miss Detective with Fairman Police Department. I believe we spoke on the phone yesterday. >> Oh, that was you that called me? >> Yes, ma'am. I just want to know what happened this morning. >> Uh-huh. Say what? >> I'd like to know what happened this morning. You still want to focus? >> No, she just uh she got him over with the uh like you said, the CPS did. >> That's not the only thing that happened this morning. >> What happened? >> Your child got out of the gate again this morning at 6:55 and was almost run over and the complainant picked him up. >> No. >> No. >> No. >> So, the report I came out, >> this was this was yesterday. So, the child that they just found when he was walking outside the gate this morning at 6:00 this morning after dropping your husband off and you were running around the complex asking where my child is was not you. >> That was Yeah, that was yesterday. I mean, uh the weekend prior to that. But today, no, cuz she just got here this morning. She got here early this morning, like 7 something. >> Is that >> uh the CPS? Okay. What? She She trying She called Y. >> Mr. Detective, you can come. Y'all want to come in? >> Yes, sir. Come on, [ __ ] Cuz look, we um we got the camera. Well, nothing on the camera this morning. We can put this camera up last night. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Was not on camera this morning. >> I got you. >> Yeah. I'll make a focus on being with just a second. Okay. >> What? >> I'm What if I'm being >> grown to the children in the second degree? >> What? And we in a in a bad sleep. >> Hold on. Children to who? >> Guilty the children in a second degree. >> But what is that? I don't even know what that is. Early in the morning. What could I possibly do early in the morning? Hold on. My sister's on the phone. Call my sister. >> We're going to walk down here. Okay. >> I need my shoes. >> Somebody open the door and go get your shoes for you. >> Where's the shoes? >> They're right there by the door. >> The mother's reaction to being told she was under arrest for cruelty to children was pure theater. She kept screaming that she was being arrested for nothing while her toddler was repeatedly found near a busy roadway in a loaded diaper. She seemed more worried about her shoes and her phone than the fact that her child was almost flattened by a car. >> And you didn't even look at the thing that I had on today. >> Yes. >> Let me show you the thing that I got on my door. >> This is 53 ammo. But then we have one in arrested for nothing. I'm basically being arrested for nothing. Why? Why is I'm being arrested? Cruel to my child. >> So, this is the fourth time this has happened. Put your shoe on. >> How is this the fourth time? >> Put your shoe on. >> How is this the fourth time? >> Let's go. >> How is this the fourth time? >> How is this the fourth time? >> Am I have to pull you out of this house? >> I need my phone. Can you please get my phone? Lisa, call. Kyler, call. >> Let's go. >> Y'all come out the door. >> Nope. They're good. CPS. >> WHAT? >> YEP. >> HOLD ON. NO. HOLD ON. MY KID OLD ENOUGH TO BE AT THE HOUSE for [laughter] ma'am. >> What y'all MEAN? THIS THE FOUR HOW IS THIS THE FOURTH TIME? How is this the fourth time? IS WHAT I'M TELLING Y'ALL. THIS THIS IS NOT RIGHT. How How is this the fourth time? Y'all don't even have proof, y'all. How is this the fourth time? >> Why? WHY Y'ALL DOING THIS TO ME? >> WHY? [screaming] WHY? YOU WAS ILLEGALLY LOCKING ME UP. WHAT DID I DO? >> NOTHING. I AIN'T NEVER BEEN TO JAIL, BRO. WHAT IS Y'ALL DOING? >> 6350 ROAD. >> WHY? WHY [screaming] ARE Y'ALL LOCKING ME UP, BRO? WHY? Why am I going TO JAIL? WHAT DID I DO? I They ain't doing nothing illegally. >> So that we don't put them in child. >> Ma'am, >> she's trying to help you. >> Remember? Remember I tried to have this CONVERSATION WITH YOU? >> NO. Why did Why this is illegally? Why? Why did What did I do? >> It don't matter. I'm not in the room. What happened? >> I know. I know. You didn't I know >> this woman really had the nerve to ask for a supervisor while she was being legally locked up for total negligence. She even tried to use her job as an excuse. [music] It was a pathetic attempt to dodge responsibility for a wild situation she [music] created. The officer finally had enough and gave a muchneeded lecture on what actually being a parent looks like. >> Go out there and just uh have my my daughter just see my kid have my daughter call uh my sister. That's it. >> She got a cell phone. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Because I mean this is illegally. Can you Can you call my sister real quick? I ain't did I mean I ain't did nothing. >> That's the problem. >> What? What's the problem? >> That your kid keeps getting out cuz you're not doing anything. >> What you mean? I mean, I worked. WHAT ARE YOU talking about? YOU TRYING TO PAY ME AS A BAD PARENT? >> I need you to get in the car. >> What? What are you talking about? >> We're going to put you in the car if you don't get >> My kids are 15 16. They old enough to be at the house. >> You're not taking care of your child. >> Of my child while I'm at work or in in the bed. Hey, I'm not y'all think I don't love my child. >> I never said that. >> So, so why why is I'm getting arrested? Y'all have no proof. I ain't did nothing. Y'all ain't told me nothing. Y just put a handcuff in your vehicle on on me. Call the supervisor. >> Please. >> I'm going to jail. What did I do illegally on on paperwork? Where the paperwork at? >> He told you the charge. Yeah. Explain it to I ain't got no paperwork. >> Don't have >> I don't I don't have anything. What? What did I do illegally? What? What crime did I commit? >> The longer we sit here, the longer we take, but what crime did I commit? The >> longer we sit here, the longer you take. >> What crime did I commit? >> What? >> How this cruel to children? >> Put your feet in the car. >> How? My baby is good. What is y'all saying? >> Put your feet in the car. >> How this cru to children, >> ma'am. Put your feet in the car, >> boy. The mother kept insisting her baby was good, completely ignoring that he was almost roadkill just an hour earlier. It was a sharp reality check that unfortunately seemed to go right over her head. While she was being loaded into the cruiser, [music] the teenagers were left to face the music with the officers. Those were just teenagers, [music] and their attitude was just as crusty as their mothers. >> They just got rounded out by a coworker. He says that I'm full. Okay. Well, that's pretty apparent. >> Well, that's pretty apparent or what? Does y'all want to go to the store? >> My mom's a >> So, who who's a family member that you guys call? >> We call my auntie. >> We'll need her name for the police report so I never left the kids with black. >> Does anybody give a damn in this apartment? Yes, we do. >> Doesn't seem like it. >> Why is it so >> Hey, Missy. I got a daughter and I got a granddaughter who I care and I love very much. Listen to me. You be quiet. >> No. Like, >> shut up. >> Shut the hell up. Listen to me right now. Shut up. >> You shut up. >> Okay. I'm a father and a grandfather of two girls, okay, who I love very much. AND I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE to protect those two and my family. That means I watch over them at all cost. If you love your brother and give a damn about him, you wouldn't let this be happening. >> It was sweet. >> It doesn't matter. YOU WERE IN CHARGE OF HIM YESTERDAY WHEN YOUR MOTHER WAS GONE. We will sleep that time, too. >> You can't be asleep when YOU GOT A TODDLER IN THE HOUSE. >> He was asleep with us. >> You have to watch them 247. >> They get into everything. They get out. >> You have to be responsible. >> Can I tell you something? >> Can I tell you something? >> Listen, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but look, he was sleep with us. >> Yes. >> He was literally sleep with us. We don't know when is he going to be up because we are asleep as well with him. Yes. >> So I don't understand why you trying to yell and tell us all this but we are still kids at the end of the day. So why are you now kids? >> We are teenagers or whatever. It's still kids at the end of the day. We are still asleep. >> They stood there arguing about how many times the kid had actually escaped [music] as if two times is somehow acceptable. It was clear these kids shouldn't have to parent their brother. But they weren't exactly winning any sibling of the year awards either. >> [music] >> The most frustrating part was realizing these teenagers were missing school just to watch a toddler they weren't even watching. >> Where is the kid's father at? >> You spuse me. Where's the child's father at? >> We don't know. >> Yeah, we do not know. >> Y'all got different dads? >> Yes. >> I apologize. My mouth's Sorry about that. That wasn't on purpose. I got spit on. >> Is he sleeping now? >> Yes, he's sleep. >> Where's he at? >> He's in our room right now sleeping on our bed. Let me see. >> Do y'all not have school this morning? >> Not right now. >> Not right now. What time do you have school? >> Right now. Creekide. >> Do you ride the bus? >> Sometime. >> That's in session. And it was in session yesterday. >> This happened yesterday. >> So, why are you guys not at school? >> Well, there's a lot going on. Are you purposely not in school to watch him? >> Are you purposely not going to school so you could watch him? >> Did your mom put you up to that? >> How How many days of school have you missed to babysit? >> Not like this. Not like a everyday thing. >> No, this is the fourth time this has happened recently. >> Oh, yeah. I'm trying. We What do you mean like fourth? >> Yesterday we came out. He's over there with a loaded diaper. running around. I almost got ran over. >> Okay. Okay. Look. Okay. So, tell me. Okay. So, I remember this happened yesterday. So, >> yes, the police were here yesterday. >> Yes. So, >> that's twice. One, two. >> Okay. So, I'm trying to understand cuz this only happened two times. So, where you get four from? >> How about the previous encounters like a week ago? >> Which one? >> Which one? How many are there? No, I'm just gonna I'm I'm confused right now because you're saying fourth, but I I I don't even remember. It happened two times. >> What days did y'all go to school last week? >> Can't even remember. I can't remember. >> Did you go once at least? >> No, it was like three, I think. >> When asked how many days they missed, they couldn't even remember, [music] which screams that their mother put them up to it. These kids should have been getting an education instead [music] of parenting their brother. It's a tragedy that they didn't have a snowballs chance in hell with this kind of leadership. >> I asked the kids. I said, "Well, what time did um he get back home this morning?" You know, she said that he never got out this morning. >> Well, >> I asked the kids Wednesday. He got out. >> Oh, I had to make a report this morning cuz he got out again. >> What's your name? >> Detective Vanloo. I just made one this morning. >> Oh, okay. You made another one. Okay. >> Yeah, cuz he got out this morning at 6:55 >> and he almost got run over because he was almost to Highway 74. >> Jesus. And the same person who found him yesterday dropped her husband off at work was coming back in and found him again wearing the same clothes and she said the diaper was dirty again. So I don't know if they changed the diaper or I don't know that part. But she was 100% sure that it was today's date and that it was the same clothes yesterday. So when mom was like nothing happened this morning. So you know we arrested her in the car and I went back and asked the kids so what time did brother come home this morning after he got out. They said oh we don't know. Mom to go pick him up. So obviously he got out again this morning. available. >> Hey, excuse me. >> Yes. >> Um, when's the family member coming? >> So, at this point, I spoke to a cousin named Bana and she's um an hour and 10 minutes away. Brianna Cunningham. She lives in Woodstock. >> Okay. >> So, I'm waiting on her. This entire situation was a masterclass in parental neglect and a complete failure of the household. From a toddler escaping into traffic [music] to teenagers skipping school to sleep babysit, it was a disaster waiting to happen. The mother was so busy playing the victim that she forgot [music] she was supposed to be the protector. Hopefully CPS can find a place for him where he isn't treated like an afterthought in a house full of sleepers. The mother was charged with cruelty to children in the second degree and transported [music] to jail. It's heartbreaking to see teenagers forced to sacrifice their education to babysit in such a dangerous environment. If you think those kids deserve a better shot at life, hit that like button to spread the word. Don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a reality check from the front lines of law enforcement. [music] Thanks for watching our breakdown of this wild situation and we will see you in the next