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Mother Arrested For Abandoning Child

1,161 views · Published 16 July 2012 · 2:29 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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by Karen Zatkulak  A 3-year-old little boy cries out for help, after he was abandoned in an East Ridge Motel.  The toddler called a stranger, frightened because his mother was nowhere to be found.East Ridge Police tell us Angela Deville left her son, alone, in a filthy room.  It was several hours later when she finally returned, and was arrested for child abuse and neglect.Newschannel 9 got the 9-1-1 call from the neighbor who found the little boy.  Alex Romero told the dispatcher, "I was sleeping and the little boy, he called me and said 'help, help.'"Romero described the disturbing scene that unfolded at the Superior Creek Lodge early Thursday morning.  We talked to him by phone this afternoon.  He told us he was worried about the little boy, who he didn't even know, but called his room for help.  Romero says when he went to the boy's room, he was alone.  Romero told the dispatcher, "I walked in, and he was in the middle of the room, and there is nobody there and he said 'help me, help me.'"To make it worse, police say the abandoned child was surrounded by filth.  Spokesperson Erik Hopkins says, "The room was in deplorable condition, dirty diapers, old food, fecal matter on the floor."Meanwhile, Romero says the little boy just kept asking for his mom.  You can hear him in the background of the 9-1-1 call.  "He said I don't know where my mom is."Police tell us about an hour later, his mom finally showed up.  They say Angela Lorraine Deville changed her story several times about where she had been.  Hopkins says, "She had gone to a nightclub on Rossville Boulevard with a friend and had left the child unattended."We found her facebook page.  It says she works at Diamonds and Lace as a dancer.  She also posted about being two different people living two different lives.  She mentions the little boy who made her grow up and stop partying on her page as well, along with her other child.The little boy is now in the state's custody.  Deville faces a of child abuse and neglect.We've also learned Deville was arrested in 2009 for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.  She is out on bond.We reached out to her unsuccessfully on facebook and visited the address listed as her home, but no one answered.

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