Crime & Safety
Tenn. Grand Jury to Decide on Charges for Eva Cameron
The Algonquin mom left her 19-year-old mentally disabled daughter at a bar in Tennessee on June 28.
A Tennessee grand jury will decide Friday whether to file criminal charges against Eva Cameron, an Algonquin mom who left her 19-year-old mentally disabled daughter at a bar in Tennessee on June 28, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The Chicago Tribune reports the grand jury will consider charges of willful neglect, exploitation of an impaired adult and flagrant nonsupport.
Eva Cameron, 45, told the Northwest Herald she left her daughter at the Big Orange Bar in Caryville, Tenn., so she would become a ward of the state and receive assistance from Tennessee. Eva Cameron said Illinois does not provide enough assistance for disabled adults.
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Lynn Cameron suffers from multiple disabilities and has the mental capacity of a 2- or 3-year-old child, according to media reports.
After spending weeks in Tennessee, a judge ordered that the state of Illinois would assume responsibility of Lynn Cameron, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.
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The Daily Herald reported in recent weeks Lynn Cameron was staying "close to family and friends" at a "state-funded residential home."
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