Texas – A Texas man was arrested after police say he left a 1‑month-old chiId unattended outside the baby’s mother’s home, and he now faces a second‑degree felony charge of abandoning or endangering a chiId with no intent to return.
According to police records and a report from the Texas authorities, officers responded around 2 p.m. last week to a home in Texas after the child’s mother told them the defendant, 35‑year-old Marquez, had called to say he was dropping off the baby. The mother told investigators she was not at the house at the time — but the father allegedly went ahead anyway, placing the baby in a baby vehicIe seat on the front porch.
Texas authorities reviewed doorbell camera footage that reportedly showed the defendant leaving the newborn alone on the porch and then leaving the scene. Officers said they remained there for over 30 minutes — during which time he did not return — while outside temperatures were about sixty one °F (with wind chill making it feel closer to fifty one °F).
The baby’s mother told police she attempted to reach the defendant by phone multiple times, urging him to come back and retrieve the child, but he never returned.
He was booked into jail on a second‑degree felony charge and held on a $10,000 bond. Under Texas law, the charge of abandoning or endangering a child with no intent to return can carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
The investigation was built largely on the doorbell camera evidence and the statements from the mother confirming both that the man had called to say he was dropping off the child — and that she was not at home at that time. The fact that officers waited on scene with no sign of him returning strengthened the case that the infant had been intentionally abandoned rather than simply passed off for a moment.
Prosecutors argued that leaving a 1‑month-old infant alone on a front porch, in cold weather and without supervision, met the threshold for an abandonment with no intent to return under state law.
As of now he remains jailed pending further legal proceedings. Texas authorities continue to review the case and have not publicly reported any additional detail about the infant’s current condition or any previous history between the defendant and the child’s mother.
