Woman charged with neglect of her child

A young mother has been charged with the seldom prosecuted crime of child neglect. Twenty-one year old Arlene Tillett of number three Lakeview Street was formally arraigned on the charge today before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. According to police, on December fifteenth they received a call that a child was left home alone and that the house had caught fire. When personnel from the Domestic Violence Unit visited the K.H.M.H., they found Tillett’s one year old son, Dae’zhaun Adolphus, suffering from burns to his ear, shoulder, leg and feet. Tillett claims that she had left the toddler home because she had gone looking for a job. Tillett pled not guilty and was granted bail of seven hundred dollars. The case has been adjourned until January twenty-sixth.