Phoenix stripper Samantha Abernathy (pictured) was arrested yesterday after cops discovered she'd left her two little kids, 1 and 3 years old, alone in the house for hours.
Neighbors called the cops at about 7:30 a.m. because the kids were running around loose in the apartment complex. Abernathy had left them alone since about two or three in the morning. When the kids were let back in their apartment, the 1-year-old immediately went to the pantry and began eating dog food. Guess he'd done tha
Don't you hate when the facts get in the way of a good story?
Turns out the Mesa stripper's kid didn't eat dog food, after all, Mesa police say today. At least, no one actually saw the kid dog food.
Detective Michael Melendez says that the dog-food-eating part of the story came about due to notes an officer at the scene made in court documents. The officer, upon letting the temporarily abandoned kids back in their apartment, saw the 2-year-old make a beeline for the pantry and reached for
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has filed felony child abuse counts against a Mesa stripper who left her toddlers alone while she visited a boyfriend.
Samantha Abernathy, who turns 21 this week, returned to her Mesa apartment about 10:45 a.m. last Sunday, admitting to waiting police officers that she'd been gone since 2 a.m.
Police had been called to the apartment after the tykes, ages 2 and 3, were found wandering around the complex. Police initially reported that o