Hamden Man Charged After Four-Year-Old Daughter Found on Dixwell Avenue

A Hamden man is facing charges after his 4-year-old daughter was allegedly found wandering around the intersection of Dixwell Avenue and Sanford Street at 6:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Police received a report of a small child standing alone by the side of the road, according to Hamden Police spokesman Capt. Ronald Smith.  

When officers arrived at the scene, they found the young girl standing barefoot at the intersection, Smith said. She reportedly told the officers that she was walking to her mother’s home on Mix Avenue, about eight-tenths of a mile away from her Westminister Street home, Smith said.

The officers determined that the girl left her Westminster Street home through the back door after her father, Christopher Brocar, 39, of 60 Westminster St., left for work, Smith said. 

"Her 9 year-old brother was sleeping on the couch when she departed," Smith said in a release Friday.

Officers got a hold of Brocar at his Greenwich job and asked him to turn himself in, which he did, Smith said. He was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and second-degree reckless endangerment. He was held in lieu of $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on July 31.

The children were returned to their mother, Smith said, and the Department of Children and Families was contacted.