MUNCIE, Ind. – City police on Tuesday investigating a report of two boys, ages 7 and 4, being left home alone said they found the youngsters watching “Home Alone” on television.
That 1990 film featured the adventures of an 8-year-old, portrayed by Macaulay Culkin, after he was accidentally left behind when his family took a Christmas vacation to Paris.
Investigators said the circumstances leading to the Muncie boys being left home alone Tuesday did not involve an accident.
The boy’s mother – 25-year-old Taylor Joann Cumings – allegedly kept the older child home from school to watch his younger brother, who was under the weather, when she went to her job at the Youth Opportunity Center.