28-year old mother arrested after leaving 7-year old home alone to E-learn

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Galesburg Police were dispatched to an apartment in the 300 block of East Davis Street on Wednesday for a well-being check where the Department of Children and Family Services was waiting. Police were notified that a 7-year old male was home alone E-learning. When police made contact with the child, he told officers and DCFS he does his E-learning at home alone while his mother is at work. GPD asked the child what should he do if there was a fire, and the child said he’d “hide in a closet” according to police reports. Officers also asked the child what to do if there was an emergency, which the child answered, “call his mom.” But the child’s cell phone was dead and he didn’t know how to charge it. Police helped the boy get dressed and sent him with DCFS to their offices. Police met with the boy’s mother, 28-year old Jasmine Lane, later in the day at the Public Safety Building. Lane told GPD she was just leaving the boy alone this week because she had no one to watch him. Police told Lane they had spoken with her neighbors who offered to watch the boy. Lane was arrested for Endangering the Life of a Child.

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