An Atlantic City woman accused of abandoning her four young children in a vomit- and feces-filled hotel room was released after pleading guilty, BreakingAC has confirmed.
Na'ayAsia Torres, 29, also applied to pretrial intervention, an option that — if accepted — would allow her to complete a program and avoid a criminal sentence.
Otherwise, she faces probation.
Torres was a fugitive for months after her four young children were found alone inside the Flagship Hotel, where they had been left for more than six hours, according to the charges.
Police were called after she failed to return as promised when staff called her.
A 6-year-old girl answered the door when Officer Robert Reynolds knocked but refused to take off the security latch, the officer wrote in the affidavit.
As he spoke to the oldest child, he could “hear that the other children were upset and crying,” he wrote.
Two of the children could be seen without clothes, with another lying on the bed with just underwear, according to the report. He then saw the child vomit at the base of the bed, with another child trying to cover it up.
There were several piles of feces on the floor, one on a chair and smeared on the bedsheets and pillows.
At the hospital, officers observed large bruising, multiple lacerations and burn marks to at least one of the children, Assistant Prosecutor Katrina Koerner said.
Torres never responded to calls from the hospital, and the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, or DCPP, was called, according to information provided during her detention hearing.
She remained a fugitive until she was recognized at a market and arrested in October.
Judge Pamela D'Arcy ordered Torres held during a detention hearing that same month.
Torres was released Nov. 29, after pleading guilty.
She is scheduled back in court next Wednesday.
