The Brief Mundelein mother charged: A 21-year-old woman is charged with involuntary manslaughter, child endangerment resulting in death and child abandonment after investigators said she left her 4-year-old son home alone for nearly 20 hours before a fatal house fire. Child died in March fire: Firefighters found 4-year-old Christopher Alfaro-Rodriguez dead in the basement of a home engulfed in flames on March 23. A Mundelein mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after authorities said she left her 4-year-old son home alone for nearly 20 hours before he died in a house fire. Mundelein police said officers learned 4-year-old Christopher Alfaro-Rodriguez was still inside. Rodriguez initially told investigators she had left Christopher home alone while she went to get food and returned to find the house on fire.