Baby left home alone three weeks

A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl left alone for nearly three weeks while her mother was in jail survived by eating mustard, ketchup, rice and raw pasta, police said.

The toddler was watching cartoons when found by her father, said police in Jacksonville, Florida. She was suffering from malnutrition and was being treated in hospital yesterday.

Dakeysha Lee, 22, was charged with child abuse because she failed to let anyone know that her daughter was alone in her apartment when she was jailed on September 10 on unrelated charges.