A mother left her nine-day-old baby and toddler sister home alone to get drunk at a bar, then crashed into a pole and ended up in jail.
The neglected infants were not rescued until 14 hours after Sandra Henriquez, 32, left her home at 12.30am and drove to the Big Shots Pub in Muncie, Indiana.
The children were only saved when neighbors called police saying they heard babies crying inside the home at 2.22pm.
Henriquez had already downed a whole six-pack of 16oz Budweiser cans at home before she abandoned them to drink all night.
After the bar closed, she tried to drive home but collided with a utility pole about 5.30am on Wednesday, where she was caught by police.
She refused to answer when responding officers asked if she had children, as she had a baby’s car seat, and they hauled her away from the wreck to the Delaware County Jail.
Then at 7.27am she allegedly told jail staff that she had ‘no dependents’, but but about 8am had changed her tune to say she did have children.
At first, she allegedly wouldn’t give officers her address or phone number.
Police finally arrived at 2.31pm and forced open the door after learning Henriquez was behind bars, and found the children covered in feces.
Both were rushed to hospital and though the older girl was healthy, the baby had to be fed through a feeding tube because she was in such bad shape.
The newborn was ‘urgently cyanotic’ with blue hands, feet, and mouth due to malnutrition, and weighed less than she did when she was born on March 3.
