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June 24th, 2008, 10:55 AM
FORT PIERCE — A 39-year-old woman who told police she couldn’t find her small children following a four-day crack binge is facing two felony child neglect charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.
Lisa Anne Vantunen, of Fort Pierce, told police Monday she didn’t know where her kids, a 1-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, were.
“Lisa has been on the streets for the past four days smoking crack cocaine,” the arrest affidavit states. “Lisa said people on the street told her she threw them out of a moving vehicle and that she had suffocated the children."
Vantunen, who lives with her mother, apparently didn’t recall leaving them with a babysitter, and investigators found the children safe. The babysitter agreed to watch the children last Thursday.
“Lisa was irrationally calm while reporting she did not know if her children were alive or not,” the affidavit states.
Arrested Monday, Vantunen said she’s a good mother, but admitted having a drug problem. She said she’s been on bi-polar medication, but isn’t taking it now.
She said she sometimes checks in with her mother and the babysitter when “on her binges,” but won’t go home to care for her kids when asked to do so, the affidavit states.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/24/fort-pierce-woman-reports-children-missing-after-f/
Lisa Anne Vantunen, of Fort Pierce, told police Monday she didn’t know where her kids, a 1-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, were.
“Lisa has been on the streets for the past four days smoking crack cocaine,” the arrest affidavit states. “Lisa said people on the street told her she threw them out of a moving vehicle and that she had suffocated the children."
Vantunen, who lives with her mother, apparently didn’t recall leaving them with a babysitter, and investigators found the children safe. The babysitter agreed to watch the children last Thursday.
“Lisa was irrationally calm while reporting she did not know if her children were alive or not,” the affidavit states.
Arrested Monday, Vantunen said she’s a good mother, but admitted having a drug problem. She said she’s been on bi-polar medication, but isn’t taking it now.
She said she sometimes checks in with her mother and the babysitter when “on her binges,” but won’t go home to care for her kids when asked to do so, the affidavit states.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/24/fort-pierce-woman-reports-children-missing-after-f/