Police arrested a mother after a resident reported two unsupervised children trying to light a fire at a South Jersey home.
Burlington Police Department officers arrived on Stacy Court in Burlington around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday to an 8-year-old and a 7-year-old alone in a home. The kids told police they hadn’t eaten in more than a day and were alone all day.
Police found no adults in the home and no food as well. They did however find several bottles of booze, said police.
Police contacted the Child Protection and Permanency Agency who cared for the children as officers worked to find the children’s mother, later identified as Taquana Godbolt.
Godbolt, 28, faces two counts of child endangerment and was sent to a minimum security jail after being unable to post $50,000 bail.
