Toddler rides scooter alone to barber shop, baby sister found home alone in toilet

WEST VIEW, Pa. — A 3-year-old boy was found riding a scooter along busy Perry Highway all by himself.

Surveillance video shows the little boy riding his toy car down the sidewalk in West View on Thursday.

The two ladies who approach him in the video work at the West View Barber Shop and saw the boy go by their front door.

"They noticed a little boy going up and down on a tricycle, like a little scooter, and she just said, 'Hey little boy, where's your parents?'" Carrie Ann Kleespies said. She owns the hair salon a few doors down and heard all the commotion.

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Police told Channel 11 the 3-year-old boy was dirty and had on a soiled diaper.

Officers took him home to this apartment just a few blocks away and allegedly found his father, Jesse O'Dell, asleep.

Investigators said they also found the boy's 1-year-old sister sleeping with her feet inside a toilet.

Both children were taken by CYF.

O'Dell hasn't made bail and is in the Allegheny County Jail on two felony counts of child endangerment.

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