Warren police observe children, contact CSB

WARREN

Police contacted Trumbull County Children Services after two police officers observed children ages 7 months, 2, 4 and 6 standing beside the road alone at 1:05 p.m. Thursday, the smallest one sucking on a closed bottle of charcoal-lighter fluid.

The officers took the bottle from the child and asked them where they lived. About then, their mother came out of a home on South Feederle Drive Southeast, but she denied that the children were hers until a neighobr told police she was their mother.

The woman, 29, said she had told the children to stay in the back yard while she made lunch and that the lighter fluid belonged to a neighbor.