Toddlers play with dead cat; mom charged with child endangering

Toddlers play with dead cat; mom charged with child endangering

YOUNGSTOWN — Police charged a mother with child endangering and her two toddlers were taken from her after the children were found outside playing with a dead cat, police report.

Angela M. Spinelli, 20, of Carroll Street told officers who responded to a neighbor’s complaint that she thought her two boys, ages 3 and 2, were inside sleeping.

The neighbor told police that when she found the boys at 11:50 a.m. today, the older one was not wearing a coat and was in wet pajama pants. The younger boy had no shoes on and his diaper was full of urine and feces, a police report said.

The neighbor took the boys to her home and washed their faces and hands and fed them, police said.

Spinelli was taken to the Mahoning County Jail. The children were taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for evaluation and were going to be placed in temporary foster care through county children services, the police report said.