Slidell woman arrested after leaving two children in bathtub

A Slidell woman was arrested Dec. 30 on two counts of child desertion after Slidell police found her 2-year-old and disabled 6-year-old alone in a bathtub filled with water.

Slidell police spokesman Capt. Kevin O’Neil said Nettie A. Victor, 31, 423 Olive Drive, had gone across the street to a neighbor’s house, allegedly leaving the two children, one with cerebral palsy, alone in the bathtub.

Slidell police were called in by employees of the Louisiana Office of Child Services who had gone to Victor’s house on Dec. 30 to discuss a case involving Victor’s other child, a 3-month-old.

The OCS caseworkers found the children in the tub unattended.

O’Neil said there was not a lot of water in the tub, but there wwas enough to be dangerous to the young children.

“Some people just don’t think,” O’Neil said.

When police arrived on the scene they saw Victor coming out of a neighbor’s house across the street. When she got to her house, she was arrested and charged with two counts of child desertion.

O’Neil said the 3-month-old was not in the house. Victor told OCS and police the baby was with relatives in Colorado.

Both children were taken into state custody by OCS. O’Neil said Victor was booked, but because the charges are misdemeanors, she was released.