Drunk mom calls cops.

No that's a bad parent.

Allegedly drunk, mother calls police to say son is missing

He was asleep in the same room

By Deborah Sederberg

The News-Dispatch

A drunk mother reported her son missing when the boy was sleeping on a sofa just across from the one on which the mother had passed out, according to a report at the LaPorte County Sheriff's Police.

Police received a call at just after 9 p.m. Thursday from a woman in the 9800 block of U.S. 12, Michigan City, who said her 11-year-old son was missing.

When an officer arrived, he found the boy sleeping in the living room. The report indicates the mother had passed out and had been sleeping for about 7 1/2 hours. When she awoke, police said, she failed to notice her son.

The woman at first became angry when the officer pressed to enter the residence. She repeatedly asked the officer why he wasn't searching for the boy (away from the home) instead of walking through the home.

The officer found just the one sleeping child in the residence and that child turned out to be the one the mother had reported him missing.

Police called the county's Child Protective Services and a CPS representative placed the boy with a neighbor for the night. Police officer ran a background check on the neighbor and the man had been convicted of theft, but CPS placed the child with him anyway. The reasoning: The man's background did not include any crimes against children, the report said.

After police left the mother's residence, the neighbor who had the boy called the police to report that the mother was at his home demanding to see the boy.

Police then arrested the mother on charges of trespassing and public intoxication.

According to police, the mother's blood-alcohol of .257 percent, more than three times the state .08 threshold for intoxication.

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Contact reporter Deborah Sederberg at dsederberg@thenewsdispatch.com.