{"id":165193,"date":"2025-08-22T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165193\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:05:14","slug":"recent-string-of-child-endangerment-cases-in-san-antonio-area-highlights-bigger-issues-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165193\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent string of child endangerment cases in San Antonio area highlights bigger issues, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A recent string of arrests in child endangerment cases highlights bigger issues in society, according to one local child and family expert.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Steele, interim chief executive officer of Any Baby Can, said the problems are a byproduct of what is happening not only in the San Antonio area, but across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWages have not been on pace. There\u2019s not affordable child care,\u201d she said. \u201cSo all of these things together can exacerbate these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically, Steele is referring to three separate cases recently that led to the arrests of four adults.<\/p>\n

In late July, sheriff\u2019s deputies spent several hours searching a subdivision in west Bexar County, trying to locate the family of a 2-year-old boy who was found wandering the streets alone.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office put out an appeal for information on social media July 29 after a neighbor noticed the boy, wearing only a dirty diaper, making his way along a sidewalk near a busy street.<\/p>\n

Deputies determined the child belonged to Destiny Celaya, 24, who they said phoned dispatchers about three hours after her son was already found. They arrested her on charges of abandoning\/endangering a child and possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n

A similar case<\/a> led to the arrests of Alexandrea Prewett, 33, and Benito Lopez IV, 36, last Sunday.<\/p>\n

In that case, deputies said a 2-year-old girl, also dressed in a dirty diaper, had been walking the streets of a southeast Bexar County neighborhood on her own.<\/p>\n

A report says they also found \u201cfilthy\u201d conditions inside her family\u2019s home, including a strong odor of urine, animal feces, rotting food and bugs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, they said there was an elderly person living in the home, surrounded by bottles of urine and sleeping on a blood-stained mattress.<\/p>\n

The couple was also booked into jail on a charge of abandoning\/endangering a child. However, investigators said they are considering additional charges. <\/p>\n

Another woman, Danielle Segundo<\/a>, 35, was arrested on the same charge Tuesday by San Antonio police. <\/p>\n

A report says Segundo left her two daughters, 4 and 6 years old, inside a North Side apartment alone. It says officers, who had responded to a welfare check call, took Segundo into custody when she returned to the home.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart breaks for those families in our community. We\u2019re in a really tough spot,\u201d Steele said.<\/p>\n

Lately, she said her organization, which works to educate and empower families with children, has seen more parents in distressing situations.<\/p>\n

Rather than cases like these ending with arrests, she said some of the parents would better benefit from community help. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes all of us, every single person to come together and say, \u2018How can we help each other?\u2019\u201d Steele said. <\/p>\n

It will take a village of people helping people, she said, to avoid the pitfalls. <\/p>\n

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