Texas Mother Charged With Child Abandonment

Reese Louise Myers, a 25-year-old mother from Killeen, Texas, was arrested and charged with abandoning or endangering a child after leaving her 16-month-old son alone overnight to meet a date in San Antonio, approximately 150 miles away. On July 28, police responded to reports of the toddler hanging out of a window at a ground-level apartment, where an aggressive dog was charging at neighbors trying to assist. Officers found the child with his head and shoulders outside the window, wearing only a shirt and covered in feces, with signs of diaper rash. Myers had claimed she arranged for a babysitter via Facebook, but police investigations revealed no sitter had been contacted since December 2023. The child was subsequently taken to a hospital for treatment and Child Protective Services took custody. Myers was arrested in California on a fugitive warrant and extradited back to Texas to face charges.