CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A Chicago woman, accused of leaving her nine children home unattended, told police she had to go and have sex to make the rent money.
Thirty-year-old Tonia S. Haywood was arrested for felony abandonment for leaving her children alone for four days last week, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. She is being held in lieu of $60,000 in bail.
A tipster informed police that Haywood left the children in the care of her 14-year-old daughter.
The mother of nine, left food in the the apartment and the children appeared to be healthy, said Jill Manuel, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The children are currently being cared for by Haywood's mother while DCFS investigates whether the grandmother can care for all the children.
Prosecutors said that Haywood had made only $420 of the $450 needed to pay her rent.
