if you read the daily mail article it says she thought that there had been someone in the apartment the night before who left when they got disturbed. So she goes out the next night and leaves the kid there. If they weren't middle class doctors the press would have torn them apart!
If they were fat and northern, it's a guarantee that child services would have been involved by now, and a care order regarding the other children would have been issued. Sorry. thats law speak for they would have their kids taken away by social services. PS. Love the Avatar. R.I.P. Dimebag. If it weren't for him, i wouldn't play guitar.