This case is really bothering me...I can't believe the stepmother's attorney is saying she has no responsibility! It is just as plain as day to me that the well being of these two little boys just isn't important to their father or their stepmother.
San Ramon boys alone 'repeatedly'--Contra Costa Times--Jan 9, 2006
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/13587301.htm
Excerpts:
A San Ramon couple accused of leaving two young children alone over the New Years weekend had neglected them many times since mid-October, including once when an ambulance took the youngest to an emergency room, a prosecutor said Monday.
Since Oct. 15, the brothers spent many of their days alone, often not seeing their father and stepmother who arrived home after the children fell asleep, Cashman said.
It was de la Vega's attorney, G. Wright Morton, who on Monday raised the possibility that his client has limited responsibility for her stepchildren.
"These are not my client's children," Morton said. He declined to comment further on the case.
(Note...I read in another article that the nanny for the boys resigned from her job on Oct. 15, 2005...she couldn't handle the youngest child any longer. Anyway, I guess that is why the children have been pretty much without supervision since October.) This just really gets to me--I find it almost unbelievable.