An officer learns from a neighbor that a parent has left an…
An officer learns from a neighbor that a parent has left an infant child alone at home. The officer hears an infant crying and is unable to make contact with anyone in the house. The officer fearing for the child’s safety makes an emergency entry into the house and discovers the child in a crib. During the investigation, the parent arrives home and tells the officer that she left the child at home while she ran to the store to get baby formula and that she had only been gone for 15 minutes and did not mean to abandon or neglect her child. What offense, if any, has been committed? (Obj. 8.13)