An Indiana woman was arrested this week after she allegedly left her two very young children — one of them 9 days old — home alone while she went out drinking at a bar.

Early Wednesday morning, Muncie police officers responded to a single car crash in which a vehicle hit a pole, WXIN reported. They found a woman, later identified as 32-year-old Sandra Marie Henriquez, with slurred speech. The officers noticed a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle and asked if she had any children, but she didn’t answer.

Henriquez was taken to a hospital and then taken to jail. At about 7:30 a.m., they asked again if she had children, and she replied “no dependents,” but about 30 minutes later she told jail staff that she did have children but refused to give them her home address or a phone number for someone who could check on them.

Meanwhile, just before 2:30 that afternoon, police responded to a 911 call from a person who said they could hear babies crying inside a home. During that call, dispatchers learned that the mother was Henriquez, and she was in the Delaware County Jail.

Court documents say officers had to force their way into the home and found the two children — one a year old and the other 9 days old — and rushed them to a hospital for an evaluation. The babies were reportedly covered in feces, and the newborn reportedly had blue hands, feet and mouth from malnutrition. That baby reportedly weighed less than their birth weight.

The older child was reportedly in good health but had an “extremely full” diaper.

Both children were taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, where the newborn was admitted “with a feeding tube,” the Muncie Star Press reported.

Officers found multiple open cans of alcohol inside the home and a small dog in a cage with no food or water, WXIN said.

Shortly afterward, investigators again spoke with Henriquez, and she told them that she’d gone to a bar at about 12:30 a.m., leaving the children alone. She said she drank a six-pack of beer before she left.

Henriquez has been charged with neglect of a dependent causing serious bodily injury, neglect of a dependent-abandonment, two counts of negelct of a dependent, and obstruction of justce.

Henriquez was being held on a $42,500 bond, the Star Press said. Court documents did not say where the children were.

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[Featured image: Sandra Henriquez/Delaware County Jail]