Police said the boy had been wandering the vacation rental complex for six hours; she was later located by police in a surgical center … and arrested with her head still bandaged.
Newly released body camera footage reveals the moment a Florida woman was arrested after allegedly leaving her 3-year-old son alone in a rental car for a vacation while she went to get plastic surgery.
The incident occurred again in Doral in June after neighbors reportedly called police about a baby who was wandering alone around an apartment complex.
Quoting an arrest report, WSVN stories the boy’s mother was seen leaving the Airbnb at 10:12 a.m., before the boy checked out of the same unit at 1:13 p.m. At 4 p.m., he was found sleeping on a neighbor’s doorstep and the police were called.
Investigators say he was alone for about six hours.
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Doral police are seen responding to a lost child whose mother left her alone so she could get plastic surgery. Jessica Renteria, 25, who goes by “The Actual Pocahontass” on social media, was arrested. @wsvn @jholly #Exclusive history: photo.twitter.com/8U6HtCfTjQ
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Body camera footage from responding officers — also via WSVN — sees them asking the boy his name, as well as if he knew where he lived and where his parents had been.
They then begin to go through the complicated, asking neighbors if they were “missing a child,” trying to figure out where it came from.
As the officers spoke to neighbors, someone could be heard saying, “That’s just like the lady, the girl, who left her daughter to go away.” no doubt referring to Kristel Candelario, the mother sentenced to life in prison for murder after a young girl died when she was left alone while vacationing in Detroit, Michigan, and later Puerto Rico..
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Renteria was later discovered in a surgery center a few miles away, WSVN reported, where she was placed in handcuffs while her head was still bandaged, presumably from whatever work she had done inside. She allegedly told police that she advised a friend to watch her son for her, though he denied being advised to keep the child.
Renteria was charged with child neglect.
During a bond hearing again in June, the chosen one was seen saying“If she had the time to keep her personal stitches private in a plastic surgery center, without regard for the child, I would be concerned about any oversight.”
The aforementioned supervision rights may be in the hands of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Renteria was released from jail on June 28 on $1,000 bail; her trial is scheduled for Dec. 2.
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