Woman arrested for leaving one-year-old child locked in a bathroom overnight
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Lexes Marie Baker, 19, was arrested yesterday morning after her roommate reported hearing Baker’s one-year-old screaming in a bathroom connected to Baker’s bedroom; deputies were later told that Baker had left the apartment the previous afternoon.
At about 10:20 a.m. on June 6, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an undisclosed location after Baker’s roommate called 911 to report that a one-year-old child was locked in a bathroom.
Deputies reported that they found the bathroom door locked and the lights turned off, with a camera pointing downward from a soap holder on the counter; the baby was reportedly covered with urine, feces, and vomit and was in distress. The baby was transported by ambulance to Shands Pediatric Emergency Room for treatment.
When Baker returned and saw deputies at her apartment, she allegedly fled on foot, ignoring orders to stop; she was apprehended after a taser deployment.
Post Miranda, Baker reportedly said she had only left the baby alone for 20 minutes, but she later changed her statement and said it had been 45 minutes. She said she was monitoring the baby by viewing the camera on her cell phone; when a deputy asked whether she had seen deputies enter the bathroom, she initially said she did but then said she did not because the camera was “glitching.” She reportedly said she fled when she saw the deputies because she knew she would go to jail for leaving her child in the bathroom.
A witness reportedly said Baker had left the apartment around 5 p.m. on June 5 and did not return during the night; the roommate said they were unaware that the baby was in the bathroom until just before they called 911. The bathroom is a private bathroom inside Baker’s private bedroom in the apartment.
Baker has been charged with child neglect without great bodily harm and resisting an officer without violence. She has no local criminal history, and Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $52,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
“the baby was reportedly covered with urine, feces, and vomit and was in distress. The baby was transported by ambulance to Shands Pediatric Emergency Room for treatment.”
You left a one year old locked up for twelve hours?!!!
I’ve never hit a woman but I’d knock her the f*** out!
You won’t do anything. Shut up.n
Everyone knows your trashy history. You probably abuse children too. Only a third rate piece of trash like you would take up for this woman.
And what childcare alternatives did she have available?
Your question is irrelevant. Are you really blaming anyone but the parents? I know what you are insinuating and the government is not responsible for watching your children. Grow up, Wendy.
If only the “state” had not taken over the role of the father figure thanks to LBJ legislation there may perhaps have been another solution at hand, dunno tho’
Nineteen, child is 1, 9 month pregnancy.
Probably should have made a better choice and not gotten pregnant.
Put the child up for adoption.
Unfortunately there’s too many people who’d rather have a welfare check and other perks.
Probably not getting a welfare check if she was out working. Some people aren’t ready for kids, and when they have zero support, it makes everything 100 percent worse.
Where did it say she was out working?
Really? Alternative to staying home and taking care of her child instead of going out and doing what?
Was she at work from 5:00PM until 10:00 AM the next day?
She is definitely a child herself, and should have had someone to talk to about her choices! Maybe a parent?
Probably getting bred again. These ” fatherless children’s” mothers should be spayed and the responsible buck should be neutered. Stop this cycle.
She was out making another baby
Bail?!!! What is wrong with these judges!!!!!
Really living up to LBJ’s 200 yr promise. God bless the the Dems.
Yep do you know his famous quote?
I’m so sick of these unfit women leaving their kids alone for any reason
This is the 2nd abandon child story this week. I am noticing a trend in these stories with the suspects. Is this national lock your kid up at home week in AC and I missed it or something?
Why, oh why, do people have babies they can’t take care of and probably don’t want? Poor little baby, alone for 12 hours in terror. I have a new flash for these “wimmins” there’s a thing called birth control and it works. Saves the woman the pregnancy, saves the baby a life of being left alone in a dark bathroom for 12 hours.
Easy for you to say as a male. Birth control has been under attack for some time. Not every woman should have children at any age so this is the result. Yes, the woman was immature and any of her children will reflect this and probably pass on the same defects to their own children.
I think you mean “abortion has been under attack”…
Birth control methods are readily available.
She needs to be sterilized so that she can no longer give birth.
Purely speculative but it was a Friday night into Saturday. I would not be surprised especially with her young age that she was out partying and crashed at someone else’s house. As a previous post mentioned they do make birth control that works if taken correctly.