Police also handle child endangerment case.
Shannon Marie Rudy, 30, of Moon Township has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance—and endangering the welfare of children—after an incident on April 18. Moon Township police received a report of a woman driver driving erratically with two children in the backseat. Police found Rudy at her home. According to a police report, officers found her with droopy eyes, pin-point pupils and appearing lethargic with slurred speech. Rudy admitted to taking a prescribed medication for anxiety. Police asked her to come with them to the station for testing by a drug recognition specialist. When she refused the test, she was placed under arrest. Toxicology testing done by Sewickley Valley Hospital showed Rudy …
Police found a man passed out in a Mooncrest home, neglecting a 4-year-old in his care, according to court records.
A Moon Township man discovered drunk and sleeping while a four-year-old girl in his care was unattended in a bathtub will stand trial on charges of child endangerment. Peter Weaver, 31, is accused of neglecting the child on March 21, when a bus driver reported to police that he could not drop off a 7-year-old girl at the home because no one answered the door. The bus driver said he could see a small child running in the home, but no one answered the door. When police arrived at the Oak Drive home, they found the 4-year-old, crying, naked and soiled, sitting inside an empty bathtub. Weaver was sleeping in his underwear in another room. It took police several attempts to wake him. The children's mother left them in Weaver's care that day, …
The child endangerment charges created a firestorm on the Chartiers Valley Patch message board after a group called Free Range Kids linked to the story.
Scott Township police are defending their decision to charge the father who left his two young children at Scott Park without supervision for nearly two hours while shopping and showering. Govindaraj Narayanasamy, 38, of Scott, was charged with two counts of child endangerment after township police said he left the 6-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy alone in the park for nearly two hours Saturday. Police say he went to Walmart to buy snacks and later drove to LA Fitness to shower. The child endangerment charges created a firestorm on the Chartiers Valley Patch message board after a group called Free Range Kids linked to the story and several members criticized the woman’s call to police and the officer’s decision to file charges. Scott …
Lynn
8:24 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013
The child's mother lied about everything, she didn't hire him she's sleeping with him and used him as a babysitter. She should be the one there looking at for being a bad mother and a horrible person more ›