Mom Sleeps While 3-Year-Old in PJs Wanders the Neighborhood

Orange police say a mother was sound asleep Friday while her 3-year-old child wandered outside while only wearing pajamas.

Police said at 11 a.m. officers responded to the area of New Haven Avenue and Dogburn Lane, on a report of an unattended child wandering around the area in pajamas. A passerby stayed with the child until police arrived.

Police said they went house-to-house looking for the child’s parents, and determined that the child had been staying at a home on Spring Street.

Officers located the child’s mother, later identified as Regina Yankee-Siegel, 30, a.k.a. “Regina LaRocco” of West Haven, who was asleep in the home on Spring Street and totally unaware the child had left the home, police said.

Regina Yankee-Siegel was charged with one count each of risk of injury to a minor and interfering with an officer. Regina Yankee-Siegel posted a $5,000 bond and was given a court date of 12-22-2014 in Derby Superior Court.