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Andre L. Farris (Maricopa County)<\/strong><\/p>\n PHOENIX<\/strong> – A 19-year-old Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> father is facing felony child abuse charges after police say he left his 10-month-old daughter alone inside a sweltering, 91-degree apartment with no air conditioning and only a bottle of “rancid” milk.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Andre L. Farris Jr. was arrested on July 29 after maintenance workers made the discovery inside an apartment unit near 7th Street and Grovers Avenue<\/strong><\/a> in north Phoenix<\/strong><\/a>. Farris was booked into the Maricopa County<\/strong><\/a> jail system on suspicion of intentional child abuse, punishable by three to 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n According to court documents, apartment maintenance technicians entered the Sonoran Flats<\/strong><\/a> apartment unit and found the infant restrained inside a stroller. The apartment’s windows were left open, the air conditioning was turned off and the indoor temperature had reached 91 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n Investigating officers noted that the baby was left without access to food or water. The only item within the child’s reach was a baby bottle containing “approximately a quarter-inch of rancid milk.”<\/p>\n Police officers remained on scene at the apartment for nearly two hours after arriving, but Farris did not return to the residence during that time.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Emergency crews transported the baby to Phoenix Children’s Hospital<\/strong><\/a> for a precautionary medical evaluation. Farris eventually arrived at the hospital later that day, where officers immediately took him into custody.<\/p>\n Apartment management confirmed to police that Farris was the registered tenant on the lease, and family members verified that he is the biological father of the infant.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Farris remained in jail Thursday on a $25,000 bond. He’ll be back in front of a judge on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n Map of where officers found the abandoned baby:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this report was gathered from Maricopa County Superior Court records.<\/p>\n North Phoenix<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Andre L. Farris (Maricopa County) PHOENIX – A 19-year-old Phoenix father is facing felony child abuse charges…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,57588,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-969899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-north-phx","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117011194166605647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}