{"id":257350,"date":"2026-04-19T23:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:16:16","slug":"houston-area-caretaker-accused-of-leaving-2-disabled-adults-unsupervised-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257350\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston area caretaker accused of leaving 2 disabled adults unsupervised for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SPRING, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 26-year-old caretaker is accused of leaving two disabled adults unsupervised for several hours without proper care. Court documents alleged it happened on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The documents listed an apartment complex in Spring as the address where the two disabled adults were allegedly abandoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It also listed that complex as the home address for the defendant, Margarete Scott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court documents said Scott is the care provider for two disabled adults who she left unsupervised on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It mentioned one adult in particular and said Scott intentionally abandoned her at the address under circumstances that exposed her to the unreasonable risk of harm by leaving her without proper supervision for several hours and with the intent to return to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to court documents, one of the adults was able to leave the apartment and started going into neighboring apartments in a state of confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Scott is now charged with abandoning an elderly or disabled person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to court records, her employer&#8217;s name is Sugarheart and she&#8217;s been a caretaker there for one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC13 is currently making attempts to contact the owner with questions about Scott&#8217;s employment there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court documents said Scott posted a $15,000 bond and is now out of jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">She is due back in court Monday morning at 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A 26-year-old caretaker is accused of leaving two disabled adults unsupervised for several hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[96741,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-257350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-96741","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}