2-Year-Old Gets Drunk; Baby-Sitter Charged

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Infant had bloodshot eyes, blood-alcohol level of 0.094

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A 37-year-old man was charged with child endangerment after one of two toddlers he was baby-sitting was found drunk, authorities said.

Suffolk County sheriff’s deputies investigating a family court case peered through the window of a Patchogue home Tuesday and saw Juan Reyes passed out with the children wandering around the house.

They managed to rouse Reyes, who was the only adult at home with the two toddlers, ages 2 and 3, according to the sheriff’s office. The deputies said Reyes appeared extremely intoxicated.

The deputies also noticed the 2-year-old was having difficulty standing, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and was lethargic.

The toddler was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed he was legally intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.094 percent, the sheriff’s office said. In New York, a driver is considered drunk with an alcohol content of 0.08 percent or greater.

The second child was taken into the custody of Child Protective Services.

At the time, the children’s parents were at a hospital, where the mother was giving birth.

Reyes was arraigned Wednesday in First District Court in Central Islip and ordered held on $5,000 bail. He was scheduled to return to court on Jan. 3.

Robert Clifford, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney, said the children’s family lives at the house where the toddlers were found. Reyes also gave that as his address during his arraignment.

The district attorney’s office said Reyes was being represented by the Legal Aid Society. Calls to the society went unanswered Wednesday evening.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10634256/


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Geez, What has the world came to? Nowdays you hear about this kind of things that are happening, especially when it comes to these children. I would have been very outraged at the baby sitter because I put the trust in the baby sitter to watch my children (that is, If I was in their shoes) but still yet, the baby sitter has had no excuse at all not to give alcoholic beverage to a 2 years old. It saddens me that there are alot of news across the globe that does harm to the children.
 
How absurd can this be? Having toddlers running amok, much less, where one is in a drunken state, thankfully, the contents of the alcohol didn't kill this toddler...obviously, it's a form of neglect on the caretaker's part...who knows as it didn't say, if this man terribly regrets what did take place, at least he has to be grateful that the toddler wasn't seriously hurt or killed by the alcohol in the body.

I'd say he ought to serve many hours of community services for his actions as I don't think jail time would be ideal in this case...but then again, depending on the overall situation which we don't know entirely and that can be left up to those who is authorized to pass judgement for the man's actions.
 
:shock: How well does the parent know this baby-sitter? I wondered. It's hard to trust people watching our children, when the door closes behind them, anything could happen. It's a scary thought.

What a careless UN-responsible baby-sitter he was.
 
i m sorry, hope to toddler get better soon, but hangover toddler ll suffer through :tears:
 
Yes, that is true, I rarely have babysitter as I can NOT trust almost nobody. I prefer babysitter that got their own kids so they know what they are doing. But of course, not always the case.
I often prefer my kids' grandparents... Much safer!

Cheri said:
:shock: How well does the parent know this baby-sitter? I wondered. It's hard to trust people watching our children, when the door closes behind them, anything could happen. It's a scary thought.

What a careless UN-responsible baby-sitter he was.
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well, you gotta start em young, prepare them for college.

lol jk.

but yea that sucks. if i was the parent, i would kick the babysitters ass.
 
Oh my dear!!! :shock:

thanks god, that alcohol didn't kill this toddler..
 
i cant believe that!!! that why my god daughter's sisters and her rather me babysitter them cuz of they trust me since 4 yrs now..
 
Cheri said:
:shock: How well does the parent know this baby-sitter? I wondered. It's hard to trust people watching our children, when the door closes behind them, anything could happen. It's a scary thought.

What a careless UN-responsible baby-sitter he was.
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I would have wondered about the same thing too. Just how well did the parents know the baby sitter? Probably too well enough to trust the baby sitter alot to let him/her have the responsibility of overseeing their child while they were in the hospital giving birth and only to find that the babysitter did something outrageous like this which is uncalled for.

diehardbiker65 said:
Yes, that is true, I rarely have babysitter as I can NOT trust almost nobody. I prefer babysitter that got their own kids so they know what they are doing. But of course, not always the case.
I often prefer my kids' grandparents... Much safer!
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I would agree with you on that. It is hard enough to trust someone just enough to be able to watch your children while you are in need to do something else. The best bet is to trust someone that is very close to you and also has children of it's own or has experience being around with children. Grandparents, Sisters, Brothers and any family members are a great help in this time of the situation where u need to do other tasks. I personally have a hard time trusting other people watching my children and I prefer it for the better to let the grandparents, my sister/brother, family members and my ex husband's side to do that too. You just never know what would happen like Cheri said once the door closes, it's a scary thought.
 
more details:

December 29, 2005
2-Year-Old Boy Is Found Drunk After Mother Goes Into Labor
By JULIA C. MEAD
PATCHOGUE, N.Y., Dec. 28 - When Orbalina Miranda went into labor with her third child at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she left her two children asleep in their beds, in a relative's care, and headed to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital with her husband, Jose Gomez.

But while Ms. Miranda was still in labor, a cousin passed out drunk, the police said. And her 2-year-old son consumed enough alcohol, supposedly from bottles strewn around the apartment, that he registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.094 percent, higher than the legal limit for adults to drive.

The cousin, Juan Reyes, 37, was arrested, charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor. Her 3-year-old daughter, Rosa Gomez, was in the custody of Suffolk County Child Protective Services. And her 2-year-old son, Wilfredo Gomez, was in the emergency room of the same hospital where his mother was in delivery.

Hearing the news, Ms. Miranda became too upset to concentrate on giving birth, said her brother-in-law, Gilberto Gomez. "The baby got stuck," he said. "It was bad, very bad. She was crying."

According to the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, two deputies accidentally discovered the drunk child. The deputies were assigned to the domestic violence unit and went to the family's apartment on Division Street to investigate a complaint against a man who no longer lived there.

But through a window of the bright blue house, they spotted Mr. Reyes on a bed and the two toddlers in the apartment unsupervised, the sheriff's office said.

"The little girl was playing and acting normally," said Deputy Vincent Spadafora. "She spoke very little English, but she kept trying to hug us and she smiled a lot." The boy was in a different state. His eyes were bloodshot; he was stumbling around and appeared abnormally lethargic, he said.

They wakened Mr. Reyes by banging on the window and, when he opened the front door, the smell of alcohol was "overwhelming," Deputy Spadafora said. He and his partner, Deputy Christopher Brockmeyer, said they found three or four open bottles of liquor scattered around and guessed that Wilfredo had drunk some. They also found a baby bottle, but it was empty, they said.

Mr. Reyes was too inebriated to answer the deputies' questions coherently, the deputy said, so they called an ambulance for the boy and Child Protective Services for his sister. Medical personnel at Brookhaven Memorial hospital who treated Wilfredo also performed a blood test and found a blood-alcohol level that was 0.014 percentage points higher than the legal limit for adult drivers in New York State of 0.08 percent.

Wilfredo was released from the emergency room and returned that night to his father, who was upstairs in the hospital assisting with his wife's delivery, said Lt. John McGann, the head of the sheriff's domestic violence unit.

A language barrier and Mr. Reyes's drunken state made it difficult for deputies to figure out how the boy had consumed so much alcohol. "This individual was so inebriated that it was difficult just to establish that he was the baby sitter," said Lieutenant McGann.

So far as the family could determine, the boy mistook a bottle of clear alcohol, perhaps vodka, for something else, said Gilberto Gomez, the boy's uncle.

Lieutenant McGann said that it was fortunate his deputies found the boy by accident.

"We can only imagine what might have happened if they didn't find him," he said. "His condition definitely worsened."

Jeff Sievers, the hospital spokesman, declined to comment on the case, citing confidentiality for the patients.

Mr. Reyes, a construction laborer, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in County District Court in Central Islip. Judge Joseph Santorelli set bail at $5,000; Mr. Reyes had not posted it by early evening.

Lieutenant McGann said the Sheriff's Department saw no reason to cite the parents for neglect. "They were at the hospital," he said. "They left their children in the custody of an adult, and it didn't appear they were responsible for what happened."

But a caseworker for Child Protective Services took Rosa Gomez from her parents' apartment and left behind a notice that they were being cited for neglect and abuse. They must appear on Thursday for a hearing in County Family Court to determine whether Rosa will be returned to them from, presumably, foster care.

By Wednesday afternoon, the apartment was tidy, with toys piled in a corner. Food bubbled on the stove as Mr. Gomez talked about his brother and sister-in-law. "They are good parents," he said. "I don't know how this could happen."

He said Wilfredo had recovered and was at the hospital visiting his mother and brother, who had been born later on Tuesday. As for Rosa, he said, "I don't know when she's coming home."
 
I just saw that on the news...people have gone mad. They are going to investigate to see if he drank it himself. Yah right.......alcohol tastes like crap. I have tasted it years ago, no baby is going to drink it.
 
not trust babysitters

I personally dont trust babysitters myself... i rather a family member watch my boys becasue never know what kind of person they are unless really close family friend or someone i know for years.. than an stranger
if they do to my boys i promise i wld be PISSED Off ofc... and throw them in the hell hole and suffer for what they did to my boys bec my boys mean the world to me.. bec no things can replace what i gave up for them...
 
other case

i remmy serval years ago when a Chicago toddler was found drunk bec his uncle gave him whiskey and told the toddler that it will make him big man
thats so ougraeous!!!!! i need do my research if its right but i remmy what his uncle said..
 
diehardbiker65 said:
Yes, that is true, I rarely have babysitter as I can NOT trust almost nobody. I prefer babysitter that got their own kids so they know what they are doing. But of course, not always the case.
I often prefer my kids' grandparents... Much safer!
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat, I had so many lousy baby-sitters and it's hard to find a darn good one. I had withdrawn my boys out from daycares and babysitters house. So far one day care next door is good one, no problems yet. ;)
 
It's is shameful that the relative who was supposed to take care of the kids ended up too drunk to do anything, and the little boy is lucky to be alive considering he had dangerously high level of alcohol in his blood. :shock: I agree that the male babysitter deserved a swift kick in the butt! : P

But....

But a caseworker for Child Protective Services took Rosa Gomez from her parents' apartment and left behind a notice that they were being cited for neglect and abuse. They must appear on Thursday for a hearing in County Family Court to determine whether Rosa will be returned to them from, presumably, foster care.
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Huh??? The parents are at fault just for heading off to the hospital to have a baby and leaving the kids with an adult they thought they can trust to babysit them??? And how would they have known the relative would became drunk? It is the babysitter's fault for not doing a good job of taking care of the kids...not the parents!

*shakes head*
 
I think that the Child Protective Services fined the parents for neglect and abuse because they think that the babysitter was already drinking by the time the parents left to go to the hospital....The police and the CPS isn't sure how long the babysitter has been drinking....The parents will have to show up to court and explain their side of it I guess....:dunno:

Thank you Reba for posting more information on this ;)
 
Something is odd about this. Why would a toddler mistaken a bottle of alcohol for a drink. Sure maybe a toddler would drink a sip of it, but knowing alcohol, they don't taste good, and most people start their taste of alcohol when they get older. So how the hell did a toddler drink so much more than a sip of alcohol? If a toddler of his age sipped one, he would've have spit it out and or not drink the rest of it cuz of the taste.

It sounds like that the babysitter got tired of taking care of him, so he gave him alcohol to calm him down or somthing. Its ridicious.

I think there is more to the story of what happened. I dont think the boy purposely drank alcohol all on his own.

The parents are not responsible for this cuz they left their children in the care of a babysitter that they thought they could trust.

Look at people who left their children in the care of babysitter with their trust only to find out that those kids had been molestested or raped. So parents sometime trust people but end up regretting it.
 
darkangel8603 said:
maybe a toddler would drink a sip of it, but knowing alcohol, they don't taste good, and most people start their taste of alcohol when they get older. So how the hell did a toddler drink so much more than a sip of alcohol?
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Good question!! For myself I can't stand the taste of a beer, so it's hard to believe that a toddler will actually drink the whole bottle of beer, my guess is he might have been so thirsty since the police did said the toddler's bottle was empty... I :dunno:
 
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