Another "stay-at-home" (e.g. drunken deadbeat dad) screws up (Prescott, Arizona)

Here we go again. Mom was working while Daddy YUAN HUMMINGBIRD JACKET was "caretaking." Which means in this case that we apparently had a "stay-at home" dad (e.g. deadbeat loser) who "lost" his 1-year-old daughter while chemically impaired on booze and pot. If not harder stuff. Party on, dude....

http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=93493

5/5/2011 9:48:00 PM
Man charged after losing track of infant daughter

Prescott police booked Wuan Hummingbird Jacket, 24, into the county jail on Friday on charges of child abuse per domestic violence and possession of drug paraphernalia after he could not tell officers where the 1-year-old daughter he was supposed to be watching was, and officers found a pipe with a burned resin in the bowl in the apartment he was in.

At 10:45 p.m., officers answered a call about a missing child.

The child's mother told officers that Jacket, the father of their 1-year-old daughter, was supposed to be watching the girl while she worked, but when she got home Jacket was drunk, not making any sense, and their daughter was missing, said Lt. Andy Reinhardt, spokesman for the Prescott Police Department.

Officers noticed Jacket's speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol, according to the police report.

When officers asked Jacket where his daughter was, Jacket replied "I don't even know what to say," according to the police report.

Dispatch later told the officers that a resident in another apartment called to tell them she was watching the girl.

Officers picked up the girl from the apartment resident who told them the child had been sleeping, and they gave the child to her mother, Reinhardt said.

The apartment resident told police she knocked on the door to Jacket's apartment at 9:30, but no one answered the door, so she called a number that turned out to belong to Jacket's parents in Winslow.

The apartment resident told police that Jacket's parents told her that police were looking for the child, so she called police immediately, according to the police report.

Officers had a drug recognition expert examine Jacket who said Jacket appeared to be under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug.

Officers repeatedly asked Jacket if he knew where his daughter was, and Jacket said he did not, according to the police report.

Just before he was driven to jail, Jacket told officers he had taken his daughter to a neighbor's after he had taken his daughter to a friend's home but it was not an appropriate environment for her, according to the police report.