Neglected kids left home alone while Dad went out drinking (Redwood City, California)

Father ABIDAN ELIEL GARCIA VASQUEZ is charged with three counts of felony child child endangerment for leaving a three-year-old and a one-year-old at home alone while he went out drinking. The three-year-old was found wandering around with inadequate clothing, and the one-year-old showed distinct signs of abuse (including sexual abuse?) and neglect: a severe rash and abscesses on her legs and genital area. No mention of a mother at all. Custodial father?

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Father who left kids home alone to go drinking takes plea deal
Bay City News Service
Posted: 06/30/2009 02:53:16 PM PDT
Updated: 06/30/2009 02:53:17 PM PDT

A 22-year-old man accused of leaving his two young children home alone to go out drinking avoided prison time in a plea deal with prosecutors in San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday.

Abidan Eliel Garcia Vasquez had been charged with three felony counts of child endangerment, which carried a sentence of more than seven years in state prison, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

However, on Monday he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and now faces up to six months in county jail, Wagstaffe said.

Vasquez's 3-year-old son was found the night of March 28 wandering alone in an unincorporated Redwood City neighborhood, shivering and clad only in a T-shirt and shorts.

San Mateo County sheriff's deputies learned the boy lived in a nearby home occupied by two families. When they went to the home, they found cockroaches, garbage and rotting food throughout the house and an open beer bottle on the floor, Wagstaffe said.

Also at the home was a 1-year-old girl with a severe rash and abscesses on her legs and genital area, Wagstaffe said.

Authorities discovered Vasquez had allegedly left the home around 9 p.m. after the children were asleep to go out drinking, and did not ask anyone to watch them, Wagstaffe said.

Vasquez is scheduled to be sentenced July 28.