Mom Faces Prison For Leaving Kids

Item: Boise mom pleads guilty after leaving her four kids alone on weekend nights /Patrick Orr/Idaho Statesman

More Info: Jennifer Ann Collantes will find out Oct. 8 if she will be sent to prison for leaving her four kids — ages 12, 9,5, and 3 — alone on weekend nights earlier this year. Collantes, 31, entered a guilty plea to one count of felony injury to child last month as part of a plea deal with Ada County prosecutors, who dropped three other felony injury to child counts filed in connection with the case.

Question: When is a child old enough to watch siblings who are 5 and under? Should this mom go to prison?