Twenty four year old Shannon Cook of Westmont, Illinois, really wanted to be on the Jerry Springer show. Problem was, she had no one to watch her kids while she went to the taping.
So, she left them home alone for the nine hours that she was gone. The children, who are now in foster homes, are aged 3½, 2 and less than 1. She's been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty earlier this week to three misdemeanor counts of endangering the life of a child because of no adult supervision. She was ordered to surrender to begin serving her jail sentence February 10. DuPage County Judge Daniel Guerin also placed Cook on one year of probation and ordered her to pay $525 in fees and fines.
