child desertion

The woman's two children were taken into state custody.

The children were taken from the home by the State Department of Child and Family Services.

Jenika Brooks of Lafayette has been arrested after a two-year-old girl was found wondering in the 400 block of Foreman Drive Tuesday morning.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A 24-year-old Lake Charles woman has been booked with four counts of child desertion. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kim Myers tells the American Press (http://bit.ly/cseYHv) Terri D. Harrison was arrested Friday...

HARAHAN, La. (AP) — A Harahan mother was booked with child desertion after police found her 8-year-old son alone and babysitting his 11-month-old brother. Harahan police officers say they were at 23-year-old Kaleysha Berniard's apartment with the children for more than hour before she returned home...

Deputies in Iberia Parish say the child was very thirsty and had not had a diaper change in a while.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — An Alexandria woman faces a charge of child desertion after officers arrived at a home and found two young children alone. Police detectives had gone to a house Wednesday to find Dvisia Marshall on an unrelated matter...

Tiffany Comeaux was booked for one count of child desertion when a individual brought the child to the police.