Three People Charged With Reckless Endangerment Involving Children

According to a report by Coffee County Deputy Sheriff Nicholas Graham, deputies were alerted to the children being left alone at a mobile home on the Woodbury Hwy. One of the children, an 11 year-old called 911 around 1 a.m. Sunday morning saying that he and 5 other children were alone, scared and hungry.
Deputy Graham and Sgt. David Grosch went to the mobile home where the children, ages 3 to 11 were home alone with no heat and nothing to eat.
According to the police report, the 11-year-old told the officers that his mother and the mother of some of the other children told him that they were going to find the father of one of the children and that they would be back in about 30 minutes. He said that that was at 9:30 p.m. and at 1 a.m. they got scared and worried Jamie Lea Edwards, 32, of Old Woodbury Highway and Bambi Kay Sue Weir, 34, of Roadway Inn Manchester had been gone for several hours.
The officers transported the children to the Coffee County Jail for their safety until the Department of Children Services arrived.
Officer then alerted other officers to be on the lookout for the pair and they were located at Vi’s Bar located on the Hillsboro Hwy. They were transported to the Coffee County Jail along with Timothy Edward Gibson, 23, of Oakdale Street, Manchester.
Edwards told officers that her mother was watching the children, but she was not at the house. Gibson told the officers that he was aware that the children were home alone.
Some of the children were turned over to the custody of DCS who placed them with family members and others directly to family members.
Investigator Kelly Smith charged Edwards, Weir and Gibson with reckless endangerment. They were all placed in the Coffee County Jail under a bond of $25,000 each and are set to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court Dec. 14.