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In the news today:

ANDERSON, Ind. -- An Anderson woman was arrested last week after her two sons -- a 6-year-old with Down syndrome and a 4-year-old -- were found playing in a street wearing only diapers, authorities said.

Concerned neighbors took the children inside and called the cops. We all know how long it takes for the police to respond to a non-life threatening call...

Officers didn't immediately find (the mother), who found out that they had the children three hours later, (the neighbor) said.

This is just days after:

INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman charged with neglect of a dependent after her toddler was found standing near a busy Indianapolis road said Monday she will do whatever it takes to get her daughter back.

(The mother) said she and a friend left the child alone as they went to get groceries. Before she left, (the mother) said she drank three beers. Police said she tested above the legal limit of .08 percent in a Breathalyzer test.

And last year we had...

Nancy Dyer slept as 3-year-old Damon Stewart slipped out the door of their apartment, barefoot and wearing only a diaper and a Superman T-shirt on Dec. 30.

Damon climbed through a hole in a chain-link fence, and motorists found him running on the freeway nearby on Indianapolis’ Northwestside. He was unharmed, but at least a half-dozen cars and a big rig swerved to miss him, witnesses told police.

Police traced the boy to Dyer and found her daughter Gabrielle eating the previous night’s spaghetti off the floor.

Is this just a trend in Indiana? Is there something magnetic about our roadways that attract wandering children in diapers? If only there were.