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Justice Lee Moncibaiz (Taylor County Jail).
A Texas pistillate allegedly abandoned her 3-year-old astatine their flat truthful she could spell retired drinking astatine bars with a friend, aboriginal telling cops she "needed a nighttime out."
Justice Lee Moncibaiz stands accused of abandoning a child with intent to return, according to tribunal records. A transgression ailment obtained by section ABC affiliate KTXS said Abilene constabulary responded connected Sept. 20 to an flat analyzable connected Hartford Street aft neighbors recovered a 3-year-old kid sitting unsocial astatine the bottommost of a staircase with a soiled diaper.
Cops located the flat the kid came from and entered done an unlocked door. No 1 was there. Though alone, the kid did not endure immoderate injuries. Officers recovered immoderate message that identified Moncibaiz arsenic the idiosyncratic who lived successful the apartment. They contacted her and she showed up astir 40 minutes later, according to the complaint.
The suspect allegedly claimed she near the kid with a comparative but could not supply interaction information. Other household members said they ne'er heard of the idiosyncratic she identified portion others said the comparative successful question hadn't been astir for years, the ailment reportedly said.
In an interrogation with detectives a fewer days later, Moncibaiz allegedly confessed to leaving down the child. She said she conscionable "needed a nighttime out" and went to a fewer bars with 1 of her friends. Cops did not accidental wherefore they waited much than 3 months to apprehension Moncibaiz.
She was arrested connected Wednesday and taken to the Taylor County Jail wherever she posted a $5,000 enslaved the pursuing day. It's unclear erstwhile she is adjacent slated to look successful court.
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