BPD: Intoxicated woman left son in apartment alone

A 24-year-old woman was arrested Sunday morning for child neglect after leaving her 10-month-old infant unattended while she argued with a male outside, according to Bloomington Police Department reports.

BPD received a call from a neighbor at 4:11 a.m. Sunday about a female and male arguing in a parking lot of an apartment complex in the 1400 block of North Arlington Park Drive, Gladish said.

When officer Dana Runnebohm arrived at the scene she spotted the female, Crystal Decker, walking toward the apartment. The male involved in the argument told the officer that “she left her baby alone.”

The officer then asked Decker about the baby. Runnebohm said in the report that she suspected Decker was intoxicated based on the way she smelled.

Decker told Runnebohm that her 10-month-old son was upstairs in the apartment alone.

Decker told police that the argument occurred on the sidewalk and that she could still see the door to her apartment. Later she said that the argument occurred on a sidewalk between two apartment buildings, Gladish said. The neighbor who called the police with the complaint said the argument occurred in the parking lot, and it was unlikely that she could see the apartment door from there.

Decker also told Runnebohm she had lost the key to her apartment and was unable to lock the door to her apartment.

When officers checked on the unattended infant, he was sleeping and did not appear to be harmed.

Decker faces a preliminary charge of child neglect, a class D felony.