{"id":307519,"date":"2026-05-09T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:55:50","slug":"texas-woman-indicted-accused-of-leaving-toddler-alone-because-she-needed-a-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307519\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas woman indicted, accused of leaving toddler alone because she &#8216;needed a night out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYE, Texas (KTXS) \u2014 A Texas woman was indicted after authorities said <a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/tye-woman-indicted-for-leaving-child-alone-because-she-needed-a-night-out?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she left her 3-year-old child alone in an apartment<\/a> while she went out to bars with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents state that in September, Justice Moncibaiz, of Tye, allegedly left the child unattended at an apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were called to the apartments after neighbors found the child sitting at the bottom of a staircase wearing a soiled diaper.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said officers located an unlocked apartment believed to belong to the child, but no adults were inside. Police reportedly found mail addressed to Moncibaiz in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Moncibaiz arrived at the apartment about 40 minutes after being contacted by officers.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Moncibaiz initially told investigators she had left the child with a relative, but she was unable to provide contact information for that person.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, investigators said Moncibaiz admitted she &#8220;needed a night out&#8221; and had gone to a couple of bars with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Moncibaiz was later arrested and charged with abandoning a child with intent to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYE, Texas (KTXS) \u2014 A Texas woman was indicted after authorities said she left her 3-year-old child alone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-307519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}