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Police say they catch Arlington babysitter drunk and drugged up

By adamg on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 4:31pm

A Medford woman faces a charge of reckless endangerment of a child after Arlington Police say they found her "stumbling around a neighborhood, drunk and high, while she was watching a young boy."

Police say Susan Devereaux, 51, was, as they say, known to them. They add the boy's mother had found her through care.com, an online site for babysitter referrals and had used her several times in the past without problems.

Officers responding to a call about a stumbling woman on Egerton Road around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday found her trying to enter a home - that was not that of the 3-year-old boy she had with her.

The first arriving officer noticed a strong odor of alcohol coming from her, and after a conversation, the officer learned that she was the child's babysitter and she was attempting to enter the wrong house.

Police were able to contact the boy's mother, who lives on the street, to reunite her with her son.

Police say an investigation revealed Devereaux had "consumed multiple alcoholic beverages and had taken prescription drugs earlier in the day."

Police add they plan to have a word with care.com.

Innocent, etc.

Neighborhoods: 
Arlington
Topics: 
Crime
Parenting


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By anon on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 10:20pm.

Just saying.

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By anon on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 10:30pm.

Police were able to contact the boy's mother, who lives on the street, to reunite her with her son.

If the mother lives on the street why did she need a babysitter? Hopefully it's on the *same* street, or *down* the street or something like that.

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By FlyingToaster on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 9:36am.

... she would have a babysitter to take her child to the park while she teleconferences. It would be a sensible thing to do. Unfortunately, most of the sitter services can only check CORI/SORI and not scan the wickedlocal police logs for every damn town.

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By Cranky on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 9:41am.

I read it as "she lives on the same street as the wrong house the babysitter tried to get into," not that the mother was actually on that street at the time. If that's what the statement meant, then she could very well have been at work somewhere else.

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By BostonDog on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 7:07am.

Back in March there was an allegation that the manager of the Kickstand Cafe in Arlington was in cahoots with a friend to stage a bogus robbery of the place. Someone on this forum claimed it was a set-up by the police.

Any follow up on that story?

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