This was on the news. The father was working outside and left an older child in charge.
The child crawled away, 300 yards, through the woods.
She had bug bites and lots of scratches.
They said the father was arrested.
That happened to me as a toddler - my sister was in charge. A trucker stopped on the highway, then got a cop on his CB. They brought me home (three blocks) to my sister (mom and dad still not home).
Everything was going well for my sister until I said “p-man” at the dinner table. I kept saying it along with other garbled words and gestures. My mom couldn’t figure out what I was talking about. But she noticed my older sister getting redder and redder! Mom finally got it out of her.
Sis is also the one that I learned the sh*& swear word from. I first tried that out at the Thanksgiving dinner table with all the relatives assembled!
(RIP sis! Who told me these stories as I sure don’t recall them!!)