IN BLANKSTARE NEWS: 2022’s bad mom of the year

It's only January, but we’ve already got 2022’s bad mom of the year … A Connecticut mom was recently arrested after she left her kids home alone so she could vacation with her boyfriend for the weekend in Florida. Before she left, she told the kids, who are 9 and 11, to say out of sight in the basement and "just eat candy" for dinner. She was arrested for reckless endangerment.