‘Mom’ who left four children home alone with loaded gun while she took an 11-day Oktoberfest vacation to Germany pleads not guilty
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Child Abuse
The Iowa mother who left her four young children home alone while she took an 11-day European vacation pleaded not guilty in court last week. Erin Macke, 30, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one count of transferring a firearm to a person under 21. She pleaded not guilty in a written …