By The newspaper
15 Jul 2024, 22:25 PM EDT
Sunny Isles Beach police received an emergency call regarding a girl who was inside a car in a parking lot. The girl had been without food for 6 hours and was in the intense heat, since according to her, her mother forced her to stay there until she returned, but the woman went to her apartment where they found her completely naked without remembering her daughter.
A woman, identified as Pia Haynes, 40, left her 10-year-old daughter “alone, scared and hungry” inside a white Toyota RAV4 at 400 Kings Point Drive in Sunny Isles Beach, northeast of Miami-Dade County, for several hours.
He thought his mother was kidnapped.
When the girl was reported to have been alone for several hours, officers arrived at the scene and located the Toyota RAV4 with the girl in it. She was crying and confused that her mother had left her alone for so long. The girl thought her mother had been kidnapped because she had been there for six hours, thirsty and hungry, according to the affidavit published by CBS News.
Officers asked the girl what had happened, to which she replied that Haynes “had ordered her to stay in the vehicle and promised that he would return in a few hours,” but the woman never returned. The girl then gave police her address and officers went to the nearby apartment.
The mother in her house naked
Officers arrived at the location the girl had told them about, and when they knocked for someone to open the door, Pia Haynes opened the door completely naked and seemed confused by the police presence.
When asked about her daughter’s whereabouts, she told them that she was sleeping on the couch, but when they searched the apartment they saw that there was no girl, and at that moment the mother asked where her daughter was and they explained that she had left her for hours inside the vehicle.
The woman tried to justify what she did, but was arrested by officers. Pia Haynes was charged with child neglect without causing physical harm, according to the arrest affidavit. She is being held on $1,000 bail, according to court records.
Authorities did not provide information on the health status of the 10-year-old girl. They said she is with a legal guardian, but did not say whether the guardian is a family member or a state organization.
Nebraska boy dies inside vehicle
Deaths of children left inside vehicles in very hot weather have become a leading cause of death. Last week in Nebraska, a foster mother left a 5-year-old Hispanic child in a vehicle for 7 hours in very hot weather.
The child was found and taken to a hospital, but he did not survive. The baby’s biological father does not understand why this happened to his son, as he had given him to an officially safe person to care for him and his sister, as he was having a hard time caring for them.
The biological father, who is an undocumented Hispanic migrant, is requesting the return of his other son who was in the hands of the woman who left her child inside the vehicle.
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