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Yorktown, Indiana (The Weekly Vice) -- Monica Keihn, a 26-year-old Yorktown, Indiana woman has been arrested on multiple charges after police say she abandoned her 5 month old baby at home, broke into a friend's home and then stole his car.
According to police, Keihn was arrested Thursday morning on preliminary felony charges of neglect of a dependent, auto theft and residential entry.
Investigators say a victim told police that Keihn broke into his home at about 1:15 a.m., woke him up and asked him if she could borrow his car. When the victim said no, Keihn allegedly located the man's keys herself and proceeded to leave with his car.
When authorities responded to the man's home to take an incident report, the victim informed them that Keihn had left her baby at home alone. When authorities checked the woman's home, they found the door unlock and the baby alone and asleep in bed, according to the arrest affidavit.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
On a daily basis, our site gets it's fair share of commentary that aims to remind posters that "they don't know all of the facts" in a case, despite arrest reports, jail intake records and testimony that would suggest otherwise.
This is one of the few cases where I'd be open to such an argument. This case, like some others we've posted, seems somewhat manufactured.
What I mean by manufactured is - the comments of the "victim" just don't jive with me completely. If a woman came into my home completely uninvited, and went on a search for my keys. I can guarantee she wouldn't be leaving with them. There's a relationship here that has been fractured at some point, I'd say.
Why did the victim feel the need to wait until an officer came out in the middle of the night to file a report - before conveniently suggesting that he KNEW the child was alone? How did he know that? Had he been in her apartment recently? I thought he was sleeping?
No, this story just isn't jiving - and until I get a little more information and/or feedback - I'm chalking this up to being at least 50% drama-mongering . Something is missing here.
Now don't get me wrong. A mother should have never left a child alone or with someone she couldn't completely trust. I think there's some issues with mom, and I hope this will settle her down to deal with them.
However browsing through her MySpace page - it's obvious that this woman loves her child. You can't fake mommy glow. I dearly hope she hasn't stumbled into drugs - which usually is the common theme that runs behind bizarre behavior.
But I want to make one point clear - since I know some of the parties involved will eventually cross this blog. The last place this child needs to go is Child and Family Services. No offense to those who work in the field, but every CFS employee I know admits state care should be the very last resort. And those who don't are freshly out of college and will soon come to that conclusion.
Danny Vice
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Hmm...maybe the "victim" is the father of the child and he was at the girl's house and they got into an argument and she left him there with the child and he then had a friend take him home (or maybe he lives near since she was able to get to his house to break in and steal his car) and he called the cops to report the child alone, thinking he could get her in trouble and get custody.
Or maybe he is the father and he was "babysitting" and got mad at her for being out so late so decided to get even.
Or maybe she "broke in" and "stole" his car b/c her babysitter called and told her they had to leave and she needed the car to rush home to her baby.
I know back when I was a single mom, I had to rush home from work when my neighbor informed me my paid babysitter had just left my 2 children (then ages 5 and 1)alone (asleep in bed). I was just lucky that my neighbor: 1-was home, 2-noticed the sitter as she was leaving, and 3-decent enough to call me at work and sit in my apartment until I got home (10 minutes later, b/c I can tell you I didn't wait around to get permission to leave).
Anyway, the point of my personal anecdote is that maybe she'd left the baby with someone and this is a set-up or lover's spat. Because if my neighbor hadn't called me and waited at my apartment, someone could have alleged that I'd left my kids alone.
If she DID choose to leave the baby, she definitely needs parenting classes.
Chances are there was an intimate relationship gone bad between the "friends". I will grant you that.
That still doesn't explain why he was right when he said the child was alone. Does it matter how he knew that? Not really, since the child is her responsibility, not his, and she was not there when the police arrived. That's all anybody really needs to know in order to ascertain that she neglected a five-month old.
However, in my experience the explanation for such things is usually surprisingly simple. My guess would be that he knew she had left the child alone before in order to make a booty call at his place, so he decided to use that against her when they had a falling out. If so, he's not innocent, but he also is still not legally responsible for her child.
Did she steal the car etc? I have no idea. I'd guess the truth about that is somewhere in between the two stories.
What is the mother's explanation?
There are statements to the effect that the male involved lives in the same apartment complex and that she left him to watch the baby while she went somewhere in the car.
Also that the victim and one of the officers know each other.
I couldn't put any of that into the report however because this info comes from individuals, not authorities or Monica herself. I know there's kind of a dust up going on over this right now.
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