Milwaukee Women Charged with Child Neglect After 4-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots 8-Year-Old

Two Milwaukee women are facing multiple charges for child neglect after a tragic incident resulting in a 4-year-old boy accidentally shooting an 8-year-old girl. The women, identified as Nakia M. Piggee, 27, and Vanta’Jah Theresa Latrish Westmoreland, 21, allegedly left four young children unsupervised in an apartment on Friday, as

FOX6 News

reported.

According to the criminal complaint obtained by

CBS58

, the children, which included another 8-year-old and a 42-year-old, were left alone for about 40 minutes in the apartment; during this span, the 4-year-old found a loaded gun and accidentally shot the 8-year-old girl, who subsequently required hospital treatment for a gunshot wound near her right shoulder blade.

Upon the authorities’ arrival at the scene, they found the apartment in a disturbing state – it was described as “filthy,” with food scraps, dirty clothes, and cigarette ashes strewn about, in details provided by

WISN

. The bedroom was cluttered with liquor bottles and diapers, and a 2-year-old child, severely disabled and attached to a feeding tube and oxygen tank, was found in a crib.

Adding to the negligence, Westmoreland’s loaded 9mm pistol was reported to have been within easy reach of the children, contributing to the life-threatening situation, as the 8-year-old called and said she was bleeding upon which the women returned to the apartment at 4:45 p.m after leaving at 4:06 p.m., surveillance video showed the timeline of the departure and return of Piggee and Westmoreland, which was further chronicled by

FOX6 News

. Both Piggee and Westmoreland have been charged with neglecting a child – the consequence is great bodily harm and also with three counts of neglecting a child – where specified harm did not occur, signifying the grave responsibility they bore in the oversight of the children’s safety.

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