44-year-old Roberta BlueCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A babysitter in Clarksville was arrested after police said one of the children she was watching wandered off.
Roberta Blue, 44, was charged with child abuse and neglect. Police said they were first called out to a home on Joshua Drive around 10:20 a.m. Sunday after a neighbor found a 7-year-old boy outside crying and upset stating that he was lost. Police learned the boy had been left in the care of a babysitter along with his siblings while his father was at work.
The father contacted Blue, who told him that all of his children were accounted for. However, police said she told them that she assumed the boy was outside playing and she had not checked on him for approximately an hour.
She was transported to the Montgomery County jail on $1,500 bond.
