Did you hand a child over to him today?
Here.
What's K doing? On August 6th, 2022,
this mom leaves her child unattended,
then tried to blame her non-existent
husband. I found a little boy roam in
the parking lot screaming hello like
five times. And you would think somebody
come outside and look for him. I'm not
sure. He brought her father cuz nobody
coming out looking for him. Okay. Then I
seen him running over there. So I was
like, "Okay, maybe he running towards
his mom or somebody." Okay. How uh how
long have you known that he was like out
here? Like is it right around the time
you call? About 15 minutes or so. About
15 minutes. And I keep screaming like
hello. Somebody lost their child or
something. Okay. Nobody won't like
respond. Me and this lady, we um left
out here for a while. Never saw him.
Okay. What's up, man? What's your name?
Okay. Listen, I'm going to put this
badge on you. Okay. I'm going make you a
police officer right now. Okay. You got
to help me out. We got to find your
mommy. Can we walk and find out where
your mom is at? Okay. Yeah, we'll walk
around for a little bit. Just walk
around. Call the moon. No, mom is over
the moon. Over the moon. Yeah. Moon.
Over the moon. We'll we'll walk around
and we'll start knocking on doors. What
direction did you see him coming from?
Well, when I came over there, he came
from See that? And running. So, I said
maybe he you know. Oh, like on the other
side. Yeah. I'm going start. Okay. Yeah.
All right. All right. Let's go walk and
knock. My my mom. You thirsty? Where you
think your mom is at? Um my uh mommy's o
over the teacher. She's a teacher. Yeah,
she's a teacher. Look, that's a
playground. Yeah, a playground with
somebody.
I I I went to the playground. You went
to the playground? To the playground.
But where which way did you come from?
26. Um mommy's over there on the moon.
You keep saying mommy's over here on the
moon. I I went to the stairs. Did you
come downstairs? Did you come down to go
to the playground? Yeah, I came down to
go to playground and the slide in the
blue slide. Okay. Who Who are you at
home with? Mommy up. Is mommy in the
house? Over that corner. Mommy's over
the lake. She's over the lake. No, it is
not over the lake. Okay. But look,
that's a water. Yeah, a waterfall. Okay.
Where do you go to sleep at at night?
Where's your room at? Uh uh I I go to
bed. Where's your bed at? I I went to
West Palm Beach. Where in West Palm? Uh
I went to the
playground here. Okay. No, not yet. I
just start knocking on the door.
Hey, how you doing? You all didn't lose
a kid, did you?
Okay. Have you ever seen this little guy
running around?
Okay. All right. Thank you. How you
doing? Um, do you have a child? Hi, man.
How you doing? Are you missing a child?
A little child? A little boy? No. All
right, sir. Thank you so much. You They
all answered upstairs. Yeah, nobody
recognized me. I I checked. Oh, so I'm
going to start over here. Palm Beach
Police Department. Um, do you know where
your son is? Um, he's with his dad.
Well, we have a we believe that we have
your son here and he's he was outside by
himself. Um, can you give me dad's info
so that we can get him to his
parent? I'm going to try to send you a
picture of this little boy and can you
tell me if this is your son or not? He's
uh about 3 years old saying his first
name is Liam. Um, yeah, that's his last
name. Well, we don't know if he didn't
tell us his last name. We found your uh
like basically your son's name in a
database in our records database.
I'm I'm going to let you speak to the
child to see if if you recognize the
voice. Okay. Is he in the back? I
possibly could possibly have mom on the
phone. So, I'm going to let her speak to
him.
Can you talk to Is this mommy?
Is that mommy? Hello. Hi, my baby.
What's wrong? He's not speaking. So,
does that sound like your son, ma'am?
Yes. Okay. So, can you provide me with
the phone number so that we can get dad
and have him come so he can have a
child? I don't have um his phone number.
Okay. How do you all communicate? We
just communicate. Okay. How
Who does she stay with over here? She
she's saying the father doesn't live
here. Ma'am, are you So, are you in the
city of West Palm Beach right now? Can
you come get your child? Sure. Okay. Um
where are you at? When's the last time
you had the child, ma'am? today. Okay.
And you gave him to the father at what
time? 7 around 700 p.m. or 7:00 a.m. 700
p.m. Have you left your your hotel or
are you still there? No, I'm I'm still
here. Okay. Um I've only been here for a
couple of hours. Okay.
Hi.
How you doing?
We called about your your child. Your
child that's missing.
Did you know that he was missing? No.
He's supposed to be with his dad. Do you
know where we found him? Well, they said
no. Okay. Where is your room? Okay. Who
is in there with you? Nobody's in there.
So, you're here with who?
Well, it was me and my son, but
you just said that you and your son was
Yeah, we came here and
he's dead. You just said the room is for
you and your dad or I'm sorry, for you
and your son, but then you dropped your
son off to the father. Yeah. Where did
you drop the several times? You dropped
him off here. Okay. Where is your Where
is Andy at now? I don't know.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you
communicate with dad to facilitate that
meeting today?
Let me get a Miranda car. Sergeant, do
you have any other kids? Yeah. Where are
they? Um, I have a another son, but he's
with my uncle. Where do you actually
live? Um, I live on my Why do you have a
room right down the street?
To get away from what? Just to get away
and just relax.
He's just going to ask you some more
questions, but before we turn the child
back over to you, we're going to have to
make sure everything is good here with
uh we're going to have to check your
room. We're going to have to check your
car and everything. Okay. All right. So,
first, um I'm going to read this. This
is a Miranda warnings. Okay. I am
required to warn you before you make any
statements that you have the following
constitutional rights. You have the
right to remain silent and not answer
any questions. Do you understand? Okay.
Any statement can and may be used
against you in a court of law. Do you
understand? Yes. Okay. If at any time
during the interview you do not wish to
answer any questions, you are privileged
to remain silent. Do you understand? All
right. So, you understand? I'm asking
you these questions and I'm I've been on
the phone with you. It was me that you
were speaking to. I've been on the phone
with you because I'm trying to assess
because as of right now, I'm concerned
for the well-being of the child. Let's
start from the beginning. Everything all
the way up to uh now. So, you woke up at
7:00 a.m. And where where did you wake
up? Where where did you sleep last
night? Um, it was at another So, are you
currently just living from hotel to
hotel right now? I just been like um
just trying to get away. Okay,
understandable. Who do you currently
live with? My uncle. Your uncle? Um,
where where is that? Um, I'm not sure
because he's I can't hear you, man. I'm
not sure. You're not sure what where he
is. No, no, no. Where were you staying
today? You said this morning you woke up
at your uncle's residence. Where is
that? No, I didn't wake up there. Well,
you said at another hotel. My apologies.
But you currently live with your uncle.
Yeah. Okay. Where? What happened to
that? This is all so I can understand
and so that we can know if this happens
again where we can come and find you so
that we can give you the child. Um, it
won't happen again. What? Sure. Um I
just don't you say I don't have the
answer such a question. But this is the
thing ma'am. So nothing is really making
sense right now. Basically your
explanation of how things happen. We
understand things happen. Okay. However,
when somebody is being very evasive when
we're trying to help them, it looks bad,
very bad, especially when it invol
involves a child. So, I'm just trying to
basically get your side so that I can
understand why it is we got involved
today and why it is that, you know, Liam
is outside by himself. Doesn't know
where he is. Okay. He's supposed to be
with his dad. Is there like a court
order or anything like
that? Okay. How do you all often
communicate? By phone. Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Don't don't Can I don't
understand why you're uneasy right now.
I'm giving you the opportunity. I'm just
trying to listen it. I can understand if
you were in handcuffs or something, then
like, yeah, of course. It's a reason to
be uncomfortable. You're in handcuffs.
But that's not the case. I just need
your side of the story so that I can
document and my report that's going to
go to DCF why this unfortunate event
happened. Just please explain.
I can't hear you. I'm sorry.
Okay. Tell me about that. How is he
supposed to be with his dad? So, you
called him today? Did he call
you? What is something like that?
Explain it. Did he call you or did you
call him? It wasn't really
like
just not really text. It's kind of like
text. I don't know.
I don't
understand. It was kind of text message,
but it wasn't text message.
something like that. So, what is it?
Huh? What is it?
Your phone. It's on, right? Yeah. Cuz I
called you. So, I know you can accept
calls and you can you can call. Okay.
So, is that what happened today with the
father or what? Or did he call you or
did he text you? All right. It was like
um something like that, but it was like
I can't hear you. It was something like
that. Okay. So, it was more so through
people. Okay. What people? Godly people.
What? Godly people.
More so through godly people. Who are
some godly
people like me?
Did you speak directly to the father
today?
Somewhat. Somewhat. It's a yes or no.
Did you see the father today? Did you
see him
today? Did you hand the child over to
him today?
What's kind of Can I have his phone
number so that I can call him? When's
the last time you spoke to him? I
deleted it. You deleted it. Can you show
me your call logged in?
Do I have to show you? You don't have
to. I'm just asking. So, step out. I
want to talk to you.
Thank you. Let's put this up.
916 details. Put your hands behind your
back. You're under arrest. Okay. Put
your hands together like a prank. Under
arrest. Okay. Why? Have you ever heard
of child neglect?
Yeah, but um I didn't neglect my child.
Do you know what that means? Can you
explain what child neglect is? Um, when
you don't take care of your kids. All
right, walk with
me. Keep walking. See the 911? Stand
right in front of the 911. Where is his
his father? His father is Andy. Is that
right? Or is it Herbert? Well, um, what?
What? What? Herbert is his biological
father. What What do you think we meant
by father when we asked you that
question before? Who's in Connecticut?
Like who's who's there? around him. Who
is his father? It's not a trick question
unless you don't know his um who who is
his biological his biological chromosome
father? Herbert. He is where? He's in
another state. Okay. So, who were you
supposed to that you told us you dropped
your child off to? Um you said Andy. Is
Andy a boyfriend?
Well, he's your husband. Commander stole
500. Where's his number in here? Um, I
deleted it. You deleted your husband's
phone number? Yes. Well, you surely must
know it by heart. She said they spoke on
the phone today, so it should be on him
call up. Which one is his number? I
deleted it. You deleted Andy, who is not
the biological father, but he's who?
Somebody that you were supposed to drop
your son off to. This guy doesn't exist.
According to us, this guy doesn't exist.
You know, you know his full name or did
you delete that, too? No, I know his
full name. What's his full name?
Where does he live? I'm not sure. You
don't know his You don't know anything
about him.
Um, can you look up what she's talking
about? Maybe.
Thank you. All right. Have a seat,
ma'am.
I can check it. Okay.
Are you Laurel? Yes, sir. How you doing?
Sergeant Gats with West Palm Beach
Police Department. Okay. The baby's
okay, though. We have the baby. Okay.
So, we get a call in this complex right
over here. Okay. Um I don't know if
you're really familiar with this area,
Florida. I moved to Florida like 2 years
ago because of her. She's been going
through last year that I think West Palm
Beach. I put her in the hospital. She
has been staying with me ever since DCF.
But she's been having this stuff in her
head from the other day. How long ago is
this? Um last week. So I told her that
this is a very serious statement
statement that could get somebody in
trouble. So she did she report this to
DC? I'm not sure. That's her son right
there. Oldest son 15y old. Yeah. She
just left and I told her cuz she left
him. He's been staying with me still.
Said she's going to go to a hotel. I
said you don't need to go to a hotel.
You need to go get herself a job and get
your new place. Yeah. And she has she
hasn't been home for for the last 4
days. I mean she put him out. Oh, just
stay over here around the corner. That's
what she told him. He wandered into that
complex. There's a canal. You could see
the busy road. You know, anybody could
have scooped him up. But he was walking.
Somebody found him and said, "Hey, this
this three-year-old's walking by
himself." So, we've been knocking on
doors for hours over here. And she's
giving us weird statements about how
her, oh, I dropped I dropped him off to
his his his father, Andy. And I'm like,
Andy. Then she finally comes clean.
She's like, "Yeah, Herbert's in
Connecticut or whatever." We're like,
"Who's Andy?" And she doesn't have his
phone number. She can't tell us where he
lives. So, is that true?
She She lives with me. How you doing?
So, you're sister? Yeah. Uh, where is
he? He actually got taken to McDonald's
by the other officer cuz he was hungry.
He's coming back. Oh my god. He's coming
back. She's being arrested tonight for
child neglect. Okay. Um, basically the
kid was wandering for hours right over
here. Hours? Yeah. and she's incoherent
with we don't know what's going on if
she's telling us the truth. She's
telling us a lie, some lies, but um if
if you're willing to take the child.
Yeah. Do we know who Andy is? That's who
she was saying. The f the father or
something was something like that.
She said the father name is Andy. Yes.
What the hell? Yeah, she just gave us a
different name. Okay. I just wanted to
confirm that. Thank you very much.
They're just checking your history now.
Um, we just have to do it just before we
release them to you. Um, but DCF will
make contact with you all within 4
hours. So, you'll probably see us again
cuz we'll have to go with them for the
intake. Um, took him to McDonald's, got
him something to eat. Uh, he doesn't
have any like complainting pain or
anything like that. He's ready to lay
down. Okay.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much.
She was charged with child neglect.