A wandering 2-year-old led Philadelphia Police to find another child home alone in a dirty North Philadelphia home Friday afternoon.
Police responded to the 2200 block of N 16th Street around 1:50 p.m. to find the child suffering from a substantial burn to the left foot while the child walked out in the street, said Philadelphia Police.
Police then went to the child’s home to find an 11-year-old asleep on the second floor of a residence left in deplorable shape. No parents were home at time.
Besides the burn, neither child appeared to be injured but medics took the children to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in any case so that they could be examined.
A 13-year-old cousin said 11 children live in the home. A woman, who refused to give her name, but said she was an aunt to the children said their mother went to the store to get lunch when the child wandered outside.
She also said the burn was actually a birth mark.
DHS and police investigated the incident.
