CHICAGO (AP) -
A woman faces misdemeanor child endangerment charges after seven children - one of them a 23-month old baby - were found in an inside an apartment that was supposed to be vacant on Chicago’s West Side.
Jessie Hunt, 31, was scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
Police said that the children were found Friday afternoon by officers during a wellbeing check after they received a tip about a person living in the first-floor apartment that was supposed to be empty.
All seven children were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital where, according to police, they were in good condition. It was not immediately clear if Hunt, whose last known address was on the city’s South Side, was the mother of the children.
The seven children, ranging in age from 14 years old to 23 months, were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, where they were in good condition, police said.
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