Karaoke singing gets mother in trouble
A local mother singing karaoke was arrested on child neglect charges after she allegedly left her son with her sick mother so she could perform at a local bar.
The suspect, Deborah Lynne Brown, 37, was charged with child neglect and public intoxication when she returned to her mother’s bedside at River Park Hospital to pick up her 9-year-old son, whom she had left there four hours earlier.
According to police reports, Brown left the child with her mother, who is a patient at the hospital. However, hospital staff told police due to her mother’s condition, she was incapable of supervising the child.
Following some investigation, it was discovered Brown was at Jack’s Club. Police were waiting for her when she returned to the hospital just after midnight Tuesday morning. She was taken into custody for leaving her child at the hospital and also for public intoxication for her condition when she arrived at the hospital.
When asked why she left the child there with her sick mother, Brown reportedly replied that she was a karaoke performer at the bar and had to be there to perform.