Indianapolis, Ind.—
An Indianapolis father is under arrest for playing computer games while his infant children were out wandering in the street. One of the children was wearing nothing but a diaper. The other was wearing nothing at all.The kids were located outside the Manchester Village apartments just yards from Mann Road on the southwest side of Indianapolis.
When two infants wandered out of the Manchester Village Apartments and came within 50 yards of busy Mann Road on Sunday night, responding officers noted that it's frightening to think what might have happened if it weren't for the watchful eye of an anonymous woman, who calls herself Noemy.
"The first thing I saw was the little girl here (in the street)," Noemy said. "(She had) No clothes. Nothing."
When Noemy drove into the apartment complex, she says the naked two year old girl was standing just around a small bend where she could have been hit. Noemy stopped her car to tend to the girl, and then noticed another one year old boy was playing in the grass near the curb wearing only a soiled diaper.
"I started crying," Noemy said. "Because they were two little kids and I didn't want anything to happen to them."
After waiting 20 minutes for someone to come looking for the kids, Noemy called police.
When officers arrived they found an open door several apartments down. Despite yelling through the open door and knocking several times nobody answered. The officers then walked inside and up the stairs before finding 31 year old Timothy Hausaman, who was supposed to be watching his two children.
Though he didn't initially respond, officers say Hausaman wasn't sleeping. He was actually on his bed playing an online role-playing game called "Atlantis" on his laptop. He said he had left his kids downstairs to play, and he was so into his game that he had no idea they got out.
Officers arrested Hausaman for Felony Child Neglect of a Dependent and the Department of Child Services took his kids until his wife returned home from an out of town trip.
Fox59 News visited the home tonight. The children were back at home under the supervision of an aunt, who called the incident a misunderstanding.
"Kids get out all the time you know," said the aunt. "Everybody makes a mistake. That's the way I look at it."
Noemy sees it differently and says she just hopes somebody else is watching over them now.
"I just want them to be safe because the way I found them was just not right," she said.
When officers spoke to Hausaman during the arrest, he told them, "I am obviously not very good at watching children". When asked why his wife would leave him alone with the kids he told them that she thought he could handle it this time.
