A safety guard at an apartment advanced experienced no notion what he was obtaining into when he checked an open up door and found two modest young ones sleeping inside.
It was the start off of an investigation that has taken some unforeseen turns.
Gwinnett county records exhibit the two boys — ages 2 and 4 — experienced only a blanket with them when identified inside a supposedly vacant condominium together Graves Road.
“We don’t know how prolonged the children experienced been left by yourself,” reported Cpl. Hideshi Valle with the Gwinnett County Police Division. “When he entered the apartment, he identified two compact little ones, ages 2 and 4-yrs-aged, sleeping in a single of the bedrooms.
Law enforcement ended up equipped to keep track of down a relative in Snellville.
Ernesa Ibricic to start with told Snellville law enforcement she was the children’s aunt and considered their father was someplace in jail.
Officers tracked Eric Mendoza down. He was not in jail, but is now — billed with boy or girl cruelty and felony trespass for entering into the vacant condominium.
It was not Mendoza’s initial trouble with the legislation involving the youngsters.
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Channel 2′s Tony Thomas observed an incident report from January when Snellville police stopped Mendoza for DUI and observed the youngsters in the automobile with him, reportedly not in seat belts.
He was out on bond for individuals costs when this most recent incident transpired.
As for the supposed aunt, investigators say she was caught trespassing at the Graves Road condominium exactly where the little ones had been observed later in the working day and informed police then her children ended up kidnapped.
Law enforcement say she’s in fact the children’s mother. She, also, is now in jail — charged with kid cruelty and trespass.
“The young children had been transported to a local clinic and then turned more than to DFACS,” Valle said.
Courtroom data present there was a listening to in juvenile court Thursday for the young children and they are staying stored in point out custody.
The moms and dads are presently becoming held without bond.
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