I think the the baby's not bleeding, correct? It's just your lip. >> Okay. Can we take a look at him real quick and just make sure? What's his name? >> Adrien. >> Zadrien. [snorts] How old is he? >> He's like a year and a half. >> It hurt. >> It hurts? Yeah. Okay. Is your eye normally swollen like that? >> No, >> it's not. Okay. Gotcha. Well, yeah, you got a little little cut, but it's not bleeding anymore. >> Should be okay. It doesn't look like any teeth got knocked out or anything. >> Toss everything. >> Everyone's out. >> Yeah. Coming this way or you were going that way? >> I was trying to make a turn right here. >> Okay. So, you were coming this way trying to make a turn right here. >> Yeah. >> To go back. >> I believe so. Yeah. To the gas station cuz I had no idea where I was. >> You're trying to go back to Okay. Okay. >> I'm not familiar with the area. >> So, you're trying to make the U-turn here and then it just happened to Okay. You recall about how fast you were going? >> No, I don't at all. I don't know how fast I was going. I know I wasn't speeding because I'm in an >> It's [clears throat] just after 1:00 in the morning on a dark road in Claremont, Florida. A Jeep is lying on its side in a ditch. Officers can hear a baby crying from inside the wreck. And the child's mother, the person who was driving, is standing on the sidewalk, not climbing toward the car, not screaming for her son, just standing there. What happened on this road? And the words this mother would say before the night was over are hard to forget. This is Claremont police case. 24C 22795 July 25th, 2024. Around 1:17 in the morning, Claremont police get a call no officer wants. A single vehicle crash at Hancock Road and John's Lake Road with a [music] baby still trapped in the car. They arrive to find a black Jeep flipped onto its passenger side in a ditch. And in the back seat, still buckled into his car seat, [music] is an infant, entrapped, unable to get himself out. Officers rush to get him out. And while several of them are focused entirely on saving that little boy, one detail stands out that will shape this whole case. >> Recording. I can see him. >> Who's the other driver? You were driving. >> You were driving though. Are you okay? Yes, I'm perfectly fine. I'm perfectly sober. >> I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that. You're okay with his car. I drove my dad's car. >> Listen. Listen. Take a breath. >> We were just driving out to get [laughter] a sandwich because we have no food to cook in the house. >> Take a breath. >> It's not okay. >> It is okay. >> My son is not okay. >> He is okay. The fact that he's crying right now means that he's okay. All right. [clears throat] Take a breath. >> Take a breath. >> Okay. Take a breath. >> I don't feel okay. >> I got you. Come here. [laughter] >> It's okay. I called my mom and my dad and my dad knows this is supposed to be cool. >> Okay. >> I'm I'm on the phone with my fiance right now. >> Okay. Here's what I'm going to have you do. Just take a seat right here. Okay. >> You're okay. >> Are you hurt anywhere? I see your lip is bleeding. Are you hurt anywhere else? >> I just Okay, I got you. Just take a seat on the ground. Okay. 287 Lake Signal 14. The driver of the vehicle has a small abrasion on her lip where she bit it. >> Besides your lip, is anything else hurting? >> No, sorry. >> Okay. 104. It's in the vehicle. We're working on getting the car seat removed. The vehicle's on its side in a ditch. Just signal 14. Possible signal one. Whose zone is it? Is Dion here? She's talking. Okay. >> No, you're good. I I was just going to tell Dion, but she's talking to her now. I think she's single one like alcohol. And the first thing she said, >> just just one single vehicle. >> As soon as I walked up, I said, "Are you okay?" She said, "I'm perfectly fine and I'm sober." >> And then I smelled alcohol. I was like, "Okay." >> Uh, yeah, we will. Yeah. I mean, it'll need one for sure. That me, you and B section at the same time. >> Yeah, we were all together there. How you doing? >> Yeah, just that one. >> Do me a favor, man. Don't move him around like that just in case his neck is hurt. Okay. >> And what was the baby's name? It's Adrian. X A G R I A N King. What's your baby's birthday? June 18th. Yeah, he's going to be in the ditch. >> I'm sure they have a wrench. >> Dion. >> Dion. >> The child's mother, 21-year-old Josephina Lopez, is standing near the vehicle. [music] And according to the report, she is not attempting to remove her son from the overturned Jeep. Others are doing it for her. The first officer to reach her asks if she's okay. Yosephina says she's the driver and insists she is, in her words, 100% fine and sober. >> Like the the baby's not bleeding, correct? It's just your lip. >> Okay. Can we take a look at him real quick and just make sure? What's his name? >> Adrien. >> Zadrien. How old is he? >> He's like a year and a half. >> Year and a half. Hey, Bubba. How you doing? >> Yeah. Yeah. Can I just take a look at your lip real quick? I'm just going to make sure. Can you open your mouth? Stick your tongue out. Put it back in. Open your mouth as wide as you can. >> Oh, my breath. >> Okay. All right. Lift [snorts] your tongue as high as you can lift it. >> Okay. >> It hurts. >> It hurts. Yeah. Okay. Is your eye normally swollen like that? >> No. >> It's not. Okay. Gotcha. Well, yeah. You got a little little cut, but it's not bleeding anymore. >> Should be okay. It doesn't look like any teeth got knocked out or anything. >> Everyone's out. >> Yeah. >> Hey, Josephina. So, real quick. Okay. I'm going to be doing the crash. All right. So, can you kind of tell me what happened? You said you were >> I literally have no idea. >> Okay. Which way were you coming? This way. >> I was trying to make a U-turn cuz I made the wrong turn on my directions and I flipped. >> Okay. You were coming this way or you were going that way? >> I was trying to make a turn right here. >> Okay. So, you were coming this way trying to make a turn right here. >> Yes. >> To go back. >> I believe so. Yeah. To the gas station cuz I had no idea where I was. >> You're trying to go back to Okay. Okay. >> I'm not familiar with this area. So, you're trying to make the U-turn here and then it just happened to go. Okay. You recall about how fast you were going? >> No, I don't at all. I don't know how fast I was going. Now, I know I wasn't speeding because I'm in an area where I shouldn't be going over 60 or 50. So, I >> Okay. Okay. All right. These guys are going to ask you some questions. All right. >> Okay. >> But as she speaks, the officer smells alcohol on her breath. A second officer running the crash investigation notices the same thing. The odor of alcohol and eyes that are glassy and bloodshot. Her account of the crash is simple. She says she was heading to the store, missed a turn from her phone's directions, and tried to make a Uturn on Hancock Road when the jeep went off the road and flipped. She's not sure how fast she was going. He was a bucket in the car seat. >> He was >> Yeah, we took him out to get him out of the car. >> Um, no, he's not going to go. >> He's not going to allow us to evaluate them separately. So yeah, probably having any pain got an injury on your eye. You got some pain on your lip. We're going to recommend >> Well, here's the thing. You both were involved in a pretty pretty good little wreck here. We'd like to get you evaluated. That's pretty good. You know, can we turn him around? I'd like to see if he's got any injuries. I like he's not crying. He's not breathing bad. You know, he's looking like real good. >> Hey, how you doing? >> Car wreck trying to evaluate her. >> She's Hancock and John's Lake. Just come on down here. Hey, I'm officer Barker with the Claremont Police Department. >> How you doing? >> Doing all right. How are you doing? >> Um, so I think what they're telling you is that she was involved in a car crash or at Hancock and John's Lake. There's a lot of uh the road being blocked off right now, so you won't be able to drive this way. Um, we could probably park nearby. >> We definitely recommend >> something or I don't have a lot of the information. I just know that the Jeep is rolled over in a bit. >> Yeah, the baby's in a car seat. He seems like he's fine. possible obviously okay >> yeah so far I think so it's >> a little shaken up obviously right >> yeah calm her down but >> yeah there's a lot going on um you mind if I hang up for a little bit she's going to um talk to the medics and get medically evaluated and call you back in a little bit okay >> all All right. >> All right. Um, >> I I'll give this one back to her in a little bit. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> What's his name? >> I'm sorry. >> Real good. You car seat, right? >> Okay. >> Do you know if the car rolled a bunch of times? >> No, sir. >> You're not sure? Okay. I'm not familiar with >> straight down my shirt. I didn't >> know. I know she's an eyeball. I do have looks like some swelling on her right eye and turning around. >> Yes. Just to verify speed map, you said you were trying to make a U-turn and just tipped in. So for you, >> you say that already. >> Hey, Randa. Um, they're asking for her 14. I think Dion has it maybe. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> What's your first name? >> What's your first name? your last name. >> What was that? I'm sorry. >> Your date of birth? >> November 29th, 2002. Do you have any medical history? Are you allergic to any medication? You take any medications? No. What's that? >> We're going to have to write up patient. I'm sorry, mama. One more time. What? >> And then dispatch adds a critical piece. Hosaphina's license had been suspended since January. She wasn't supposed to be driving at all, but a witness who saw the crash tells officers something that complicates Yosphina's version. She says she watched Yosphina climb out of the driver's door and that Yosphina's first words weren't a scream for help. They were quote, "Don't call 911. Don't call 911." The witness says Yosephina then got on the phone to call her father while a bystander, not the mother, was the one who actually called 911 [music] for the baby still crying inside. All right. You think you can take a few for me? [music] >> Yeah. >> Here you go. You're coming. You're coming with me. You're coming with them, right? >> Ready? >> They're going to pick you up at the hospital. Not here. Yeah, >> that's going to be like super power. I guess on stretcher on the bench seat. Is that all right? >> Yeah. >> On the bench seat uh next to >> um so we'll come meet you at the hospital and we'll give you a tow form that has that company on it. Yosephina and her son are taken to South Lake Hospital. The baby receives medical care. Yosephina refuses treatment for herself. And once the officer moves from the crash investigation into the criminal side, he reads Yosephina her Miranda rights and she says she doesn't want to make a statement. From there, she declines everything. She spontaneously says she's on two types of medication and that quote they should know. She refuses to perform field sobriety exercises even after the officer explains the consequences or his blood pressure. Okay. I can't believe I'm steady, but like [ __ ] he's pretty hard for looking, you know what I mean? Yeah. Heat. Hey R. You're going to ride with him, right? Huh? >> Right next to it. And when a certified breath test operator brings the machine to the hospital, Yosephina refuses to give a breath sample, too, and has read Florida's implied consent law. Refusing isn't a way out. In Florida, that refusal carries its own automatic penalty. And by this point, the officer has more than enough. a suspended driver, a flipped car, the smell of alcohol, bloodshot eyes, a witness account, and a baby who could have died in that ditch. And then Hosaphina says the thing that stops everyone. She becomes distraught. She tells officers she has no home, nowhere to stay, and no one in Florida. And according to the report, she tells an officer to give her kid to foster care. It's a devastating line and honestly it opens more questions than it answers. Is this a mother who doesn't care or a young woman 21 years old in crisis struggling with alcohol, mentioning medication, saying she's homeless at the lowest moment of her life? The report can't tell us which. What it can tell us is what she was charged with. Hosaphina Lopez was arrested for DUI with damage to property or a person and for abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of a child. That second charge, the child neglect, is the one that carried no bond because whatever was going on in her life, a baby ended up hanging upside down in a car seat on a Florida roadside at 1:00 in the morning. And the law treats that as its own kind of harm. So, here's the hard question this one leaves us with. When someone is clearly at their lowest, drinking, maybe unwell, maybe with nowhere to go, do we see a villain or do we see a warning we missed? And where's the line? At what point does someone's personal crisis stop being an excuse for putting a child in danger? Tell me in the comments and try to keep it human. There's a baby at the center of this one. If you want more real cases broken down with the full story, not just the shocking clip, subscribe and turn on the bell.