Babysitter Charged With Child Neglect

TROY, MI — A 29-year-old Rochester Hills woman is facing multiple charges including child neglect after a recent babysitting assignment went awry. A Troy couple hired the woman to watch their infants for the evening of Sept. 21, but found her asleep and then very groggy after waking her, according to police reports.

The couple contacted Troy Police after she drove away in her 2007 Honda Accord and officers stopped her on Anvil Drive south of E. Wattles Road at about 10:50 p.m.

The officers spoke with her and noticed an odor of alcohol. The 29-year-old admitted to having consumed one drink as soon as she arrived at the home to babysit.

(For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Troy Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

She was asked to perform several sobriety tests, which officers reported her doing poorly at. A subsequent Preliminary Breath Test revealed that the Rochester Hills woman had a blood alcohol content of .316 percent, nearly four times Michigan’s legal limit.

After arresting her, officers found marijuana, an open container of alcohol, and a key chain pill holder that contained five pills later identified as Alprazolam. She was charged with Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Alcohol, Child Neglect, Possession of a Synthetic Narcotic, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Narcotic Paraphernalia, and Transporting an Open Container of Alcohol in a Motor Vehicle.

File photo