Home Alone: 9 Year Old Twins Left Alone For Four Months

When will a Nigerian ever learn from their past mistakes of travelling out of Britain while leaving their children in the hands of some unqualified baby sitter or relative? That is exactly what happened in Manchester and has now got the police involved.

According to Daily Mail, Twin 9-year-old boys were left mostly alone in their New Hampshire apartment for four months after their parents took three siblings to Nigeria and left an uncle to care for them, authorities said Thursday.

Manchester police said the uncle, 25-year-old Giobari Atura, told them he would stop by every couple of days to drop off food, but when police got involved in November, they found no edible food in the refrigerator and only ramen noodles in a cabinet.

Atura was charged in December with one count of endangering the welfare of a child and was freed on $500 bail. Atura’s older brother, Jerusalem Monday, left for Nigeria with his wife and three of their children in July, intending to return in August. They told police they were delayed by illness and passport problems.

The case came to light in November when officials at the boys’ school told the state Division of Children, Youth and Families that the twins had been living on their own for months. The kids were getting themselves up and on the bus, then eating breakfast and lunch at school.

In a police affidavit, Atura said he’d stop by the apartment on days that he went to work, but that didn’t happen every day. He said he checked on the boys three days a week and told them to call him if they needed anything.

“It should be noted that no operable phone was located within the apartment,” the affidavit says.

Should Uncle Atura be blamed for negating his babysitting duties or the parents for leaving their twins alone for four months?

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