A Florida woman is facing charges after allegedly leaving her 3-year-old son alone to wander an apartment complex while she had cosmetic surgery.
Jessica Renteria, 25, was arrested in June and charged with child neglect after her son was apparently found wandering an apartment complex in Doral for hours. Police body camera footage shows the moments police found the boy — safe and unharmed — and arrested his mother.
A resident reportedly discovered the boy sleeping on her doorstep at around 4 p.m.
Police were called to the apartment complex at around 4:15 p.m. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the boy walking out of a third-floor apartment hours earlier, at around 1:15 p.m. Footage also apparently shows Renteria leaving the apartment complex at around 10:15 a.m. — meaning that the boy was on his own for around six hours.
According to WSVN, police found Renteria a few miles away at a surgery center. She is seen on camera being handcuffed while inside a police car. She is wearing a robe and has bandages around her face, presumably from the cosmetic procedure.
WSVN reported that Renteria told police that she had asked a friend to watch her son — but that friend denied he was ever asked to babysit.
'Are you missing a kid?': Boy, 3, left alone for hours as mom had cosmetic surgery, cops say
A Florida woman is facing charges after allegedly leaving her 3-year-old son alone to wander an apartment complex while she had cosmetic surgery.
