An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing.

Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School after receiving a tip from a television viewer who saw a surveillance video on a newscast.

Detectives said two suspects forced their way into a home one Friday morning and began ransacking the house. Police said that when a baby started crying, one of them warmed a bottle in a microwave oven and gave it to another child to feed the baby.

The suspect was being held on charges of burglary, robbery, criminal confinement and pointing a firearm.

Source: WISH-TV, http://www.wishtv.com/

Like any concerned parent or grand parent, the first question that came to my mind after reading this story was, "Where were the parents of these children?" It's a Friday morning, I'm assuming school is not out, and you leave another child to care for a bottle-fed infant? Even if it was what they would have considered for a "few minutes," it's still negligence in my book.

The article mentioned the arrest of one of the burglars, but failed to mention what charges the parent(s) were arraigned for, even if any adults were present at the time.

Certainly these children, whom I'm assuming are not of school age, were not left home alone when two suspects forced their way into the house "pointing a firearm." Surely the grownups were there being held up, but just were not mentioned in the article.

So, based on a lot of assumption, this teenager did a responsible thing while doing an irresponsible thing. Are we also to assume that he had compassion or he just couldn't stand the sound of the baby crying? Maybe he is a parent himself? It boggles the mind...

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