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Dad charged with child endangering arraigned
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
An assistant city prosecutor said two children of a man who had passed out after drinking a bottle of vodka Sunday evening were locked in a room with him for about 18 hours before one of them fell out a second-floor window Monday.
Thomas Quimby, 28, of Parkview Avenue, is in the Mahoning County jail after his arraignment Wednesday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick in municipal court on a felony charge of child endangering and a misdemeanor charge of child endangering.
Mumbling under his breath several times during the hearing, where he was arraigned via video hookup from the jail, Quimby told the magistrate he is a manager of a local fast-food restaurant and that he not only lives with the mother of the two children who were found by police Monday, but also with a girlfriend.
Jeffrey Moliterno, the prosecutor, said Quimby had fallen asleep about 9 p.m. Sunday after drinking the vodka and locked himself and his two children, both girls, age 2 and 1, in the bedroom with him.
The children weren’t found until the 1-year-old fell from the second-floor window about 3:30 p.m. Monday.
As firefighters, paramedics and police descended on the house, Quimby was oblivious to everything, Moliterno said.
“The defendant slept through the entire ordeal,” Moliterno said.
Neither the mother of the children nor the girlfriend were home at the time, according to reports.
Police climbed a ladder to the window where the baby fell and found the 2-year-old girl and Quimby sleeping, reports said, although Quimby disputed that, saying, “I took her downstairs.”
Both children are in the custody of the county Children Services Board. The child who fell is being treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was in stable condition, according to police.