Paging Macaulay Culkin
Jacob Calero, 39, and his wife, Michelle De La Vega, 32, celebrated the New Year in Las Vegas for five days. When they got home, police met them at the airport. They allegedly left Calero’s two sons, aged 5 and 10, home alone, and each was charged with two counts of felony child endangerment. “They knew it was against the law,” the 10-year-old said, adding the situation “makes me feel unloved, put it that way.” The 5-year-old boy is autistic; their mother died two years ago. Calero’s attorney, Thomas McKenna, says the case is “certainly not nearly as bad as it looks.” True: the couple did hire a dog-sitter to care for the puppies they had gotten each other for Christmas. (San Francisco Chronicle) ...It says something that a kid’s aspiration is to be treated like a dog.
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