Mom sends daughter, 3, to daycare ALONE with a Lyft driver, wrapped in urine-soaked blanket
A Manchester, New Hampshire, mom has been arrested after sending her toddler daughter to daycare in alone with a Lyft driver, The Sun reports.
Police who went to the home of Stephanie Goddu, 34, after learning of the Lyft driver taking her toddler to daycare without her, found that the incoherent woman’s baby lay in a blanket soaked with urine.
Goddu has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, as well as resisting arrest in the wake of the incident with her toddler and the Lyft driver.
When cops came to arrest Goddu on Friday, she initially barricaded herself in her home.
Police launched an investigation on Wednesday [January 6] after they were notified that Goddu’s two young children had not been picked up from day care.
When local authorities questioned the day care staffers about the mom who sent her toddler to them through a Lyft driver, they said they couldn’t reach Goddu and also informed authorities that she had a three-month-old baby.
And so investigators went to Goddu’s home to investigate.
They found that the mom who used the Lyft driver’s services to send her toddler child to day care was “incoherent and disorientated.” Goddu had difficulty answering questions.
The police found her baby in a carrier seat, “covered in urine,” Patch reports.
[Heather Hamel, a spokesperson for Southern NH Services, said:] “The baby was found to be strapped to an infant carrier seat and was wearing extremely warm clothing and a blanket.”
Hamel continued: “The carrier was not more than 6 feet away from a heater and there was concern that the child could overheat.”
Shortly after this home visit, the local cops learned about the mom sending her toddler to day care with the Lyft driver on January 4.
Fortunately, the Lyft driver did deliver the mom’s toddler to daycare safely.
NBC Boston reports that after learning of this incident, the police issued a warrant for Goddu’s arrest.
Goddu is being charged with child endangerment because of the infant’s condition and the toddler’s unsupervised ride to day care, police said.
It remains unclear who has assumed custody of the mom’s children, including the toddler sent to day care with the Lyft driver.
No word yet either on whether Goddu will face serious jail time or what caused her to become so disoriented.
In her mugshot, Goddu looks glassy eyed, disheveled and exhausted.
Boston.com reports it is also uncertain whether the mom who sent her toddler to day care with a Lyft driver has a lawyer yet.
Police issued a warrant Thursday for Goddu on two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. It wasn’t known if Goddu had a lawyer.
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