Woman faces charges after 6-year-old found wandering
YOUNGSTOWN — A Falls Avenue woman is expected to be arraigned today in municipal court on child endangering charges after reports said officers found her 6-year-old son wandering around at 2:30 a.m. Sunday on a South Side street.
Reports said officers were called to the Market Street Woodland Avenue area after a motorist saw the boy crossing the street. Police later found the boy at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Erie Street.
Reports said the boy told police he did not know the number for his house but could show police where he lived. He took the officers to a home in the 200 block of Falls Avenue where reports said his mother, Barbara Wilson, 30, was sitting in the driver's seat of a car with a man in the passenger seat.
Reports said she told police she was outside smoking and she did not know how her son could have gotten outside before admitting she went to the store with the man in the car while her son was alone.
Reports said the inside of the house was filthy and in disarray.
Wilson was taken to the Mahoning County jail. The boy was placed with his grandmother, reports said.