Okay, what happened an hour or so ago? I have a little girl sitting down from the elevator crying. She wants her mom. I can't figure out what room she's in. So, I tried calling it. No answer. Okay. So, I have a friend of mine talking to her. She's a young female. They're getting along real well. Uh I had somebody knock on their door cuz they got a do not disturb sign. Nobody's answering. Now, the young girl was telling me there's nobody else up there but her. And she's crying cuz her she can't she can't see her mom. I called her mom several times. It rings once and goes to voicemail. And I don't know what else to do with you. You know, I had to I hated to call you because I know what that's going to do with this poor girl, you know. Okay. I'd take her home if I could. Okay, what's what what room are they >> They're in 223. Okay. Where Is there a way to get into the room? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Let me get you in the room. I want to go up there and try and knock first. Okay. What are they Well, We can always TLO phone number. They have a phone number. Okay. Cuz he said he's called multiple times. I called and it's it's ringing one time and went to voicemail. >> I want to try and knock. I don't want to try and call first. Okay. Is that the little girl? Yes. Yes. According to what I was told, Who's the kid? Over there. He said like an hour ago she came down from the elevator crying. Um he's called the mom's number multiple times. It rings once, goes to voicemail. They've went up there and knocked, no answer. Okay. Can we go up and check the room? Yeah. I can do that. Would you just stay with her? I'll just go up there and check the room. Is the elevator working? 220? I don't know. Do you know who the lady is? Do you know who the Do you know who the lady is as well? Yes, I I Oh, yeah, Morgan, yes. She's a friend of mine. Yes. >> Uh do you mind or recall if this lady left or I saw her going out earlier. I never saw her come back in cuz I was busy checking people in and out and doing a lot of things. But like I said, about an hour ago, she comes down and she's crying. Yeah, let's go to her room and check and make sure she's not passed out or Yeah. Cuz I called the room >> right? I called her room a couple of times, so we knocked. >> But we can't go in cuz she has do not disturb on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think under these circumstances I called her Yeah. about four times on her cell phone, left two of them uh two messages. Okay. But like I said, now now when I ring it one time, it goes right to voicemail. Is that odd? Well, yeah, it's kind of odd when it rings one time. It's like either they got it turned off. Yeah. Mhm. Just saying, I don't know maybe the hotel staff didn't know whether she left or Front desk. Nope. Do you know what kind of vehicle she's in? No, that one I don't know, sir. Those are car keys? Yeah. All right. Looks I think it might be a rental. Huh? Might be rental. Why the heck would you leave a sexual rental? All right, we need to search the room ourselves. Her and her boyfriend were the only two I've seen in the last Leave her 20-something. That's only something that Thank you. She's 20. Fill me out the innocent person or something. No problem. Need DCF on another file reference child abuse. Fill me out the innocent No problem. Is the address in Florida? No. Do you have a vehicle registration on file? No, but they they don't take vehicle information. I know. This is the only hotel I've ever worked at that don't take driver's license information. >> That That key fob, I don't know. I'll run the tag. It had like one of the things that say the make and model. It might be a rental, but It is It probably is It probably is It is probably a rental because they're from out of state. They're from out of Do you have an email address? Yes. Get the email address and from your agency email, maybe she gets it to her phone. Okay. I'll I'll do that. I can also give you her address, too. What do you got there? Yeah, we'll take whatever you got. Okay, what's her first name? Uh Emily. E M I L Y? >> Yes. See if dispatch can run her through DHSMV and see if they have any emergency contact information attached to her Okay. file. Let me just call We'll get ahold of somebody somehow. What's the 223? That's the room that she was in. The room number. Getting forwarded to voicemail. Mhm. Hey, it's 207. Hey, if I give you a a name, could you run it through uh see if you can get anything back. Emily. You got Do you have on her by chance? No, I wish she did. I wish she did. How old do you think she is? Five. No, yeah, that'd be too too good. Well, that's all I gave you everything we had. You want to help? If you had to guess her age though. I would say she's five. >> Emily, E M I L Y. Not really old but not super young. You told her what to do. All right, ready? And what was our magic word? Do you remember? Okay, ready? One, TWO, THREE, GO. EVER COS SAM. LET'S GO RIGHT Come on. Grab paper or something. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to or just like sheets of paper? Printer? We're going to play tic-tac-toe. There you go. The restaurant is okay. It's okay. There you go. And And let's play Well, let's go sit outside. Yeah, Becky. My friend Becky over here. She's going to take us outside. Ready? Ever Cos Sam. EVER COS SAM. WHAT? HERE, if you can write your first, yeah, last, date of birth. What are you doing? Emily. Come in here. All right, you want to face that way. Take her purse off. >> off. You're under arrest. I'm under arrest? Yep. Are you arresting me? For leaving a 6-year-old alone in a hotel room. I went out Doesn't matter. >> Are you kidding me? Stay this way. What happened? Uh you left your daughter in a hotel room by herself for multiple hours. Not multiple hours. Well, not multiple hours. Not multiple hours. Yeah, well, You kidding me? >> All right. Let me tell them to go do something with the child. >> hold on a second. We don't want your daughter to see you like this. >> But like what happened? So, we'll explain all that to you. I'm going to read you your rights, and then we'll do an interview, and uh then I'll explain to you what happened, okay? But we don't want your daughter to see you in handcuffs, so we're going to I literally told her I was coming right back. I'm coming right back down. Okay. Well, I can tell you we have been here for probably about 30 minutes. The hotel said uh she's been down here for over an hour before they called us. So, you've been gone a lot longer. >> An hour? I literally I was like, "Baby, I'm going to go to the bathroom and I'll be right back." >> She came down here crying. Okay, so I'm the world's worst mother. I've never been on vacation with my daughter alone. I've never done this ever ever ever. Okay. Okay. So, apparently I'm the world's worst mother. I don't even drink with her ever. Okay. I mean, what do you guys How do you know Do you work here? No, I do not. I was I was here when she came out of the elevator. Um I got all her stuff. You want to talk to her? Yep. Do you want to come see the alligator with us real quick? Good. She wants to I I will go. I will go. You're You're a good comfort for her. Yeah. We just don't want her to see Mom getting handcuffed. Okay. That's insane to me. Like You know, I've got three girls myself. Mhm. That's like But they're a little older now. They're 21, 17, and 16. But I remember when they were 6 years old. Best times of my life. All right. I'm going to go to my car. I'm going down here. All right. Mhm. She wanted him to know where you were. You're going to go on this side. Which side? This side. Go all the way up. No, I can put the door all the way to the front first. All the way up to the front. To the front. To the front of the car. There you go. All right, lean up against the car. You have anything on you that's going to stick me, poke me, stab me? >> let my never let my daughter go. Okay. Well, there's always a time for something new, I guess. And you did today, so Come on. Seriously? Never. All right. Walk back this way. Never never never. Where Where is my daughter going? Uh she's with many other deputies. Okay, cool. So, we've contacted DCF. Cool. That's awesome. All right, just want to hang out there. What's in the trunk? Yep. I know where it's at. Okay. If you want, you can sit with your different way. You can put your cuffs this way. It'll be more comfortable. I'll be back in a minute to ask you some questions, okay? 10-7 Show Emily 10-15. 23 on a ID. All right. I'm going to read you this and then it's up to you if you want to talk or not, okay? You have the right to remain silent. Do you understand each of these rights I have explained to you? Having these rights in mind, do you wish to talk to us now? Suburban EMS 20 Will it let me go to my daughter? I don't know. I have never Suburban EMS 20 >> daughter. This was the first night ever. And she was asleep. So I thought I could sneak out for an hour. Question 1 answer is B. Question 2 answer is I was with my husband for 15 and a half years. And the first time I dated Question 3 answer is A. Question 4 answer for 3 and a half years. It's our first time. I'm the most protective mommy. I'm a counselor. This is embarrassing. Like I have never She was asleep. I was like, I'm going to sneak out and do like I don't know. A drink? Having these rights in mind, do you want to talk to me? I just told you. Is he going to let me go? I can't give you a yes or no. Okay. But I need a yes no from you. Great. You think I'm like a [ __ ] bag. I promise you I'm not. >> I don't judge anybody. No, you shouldn't. >> but >> No, you shouldn't. I was a former crisis counselor. >> Okay. You should. >> Before I talk to you, I need a a yes or no. It's up to you if you want to talk to me or not. I can't make you. Which is going to get me back to my daughter soon? >> I can't tell you that. Do you want to think about it before you give me an answer? It's fine. Whatever. I told you what I needed to tell you. I'm sorry? I told you what I needed to tell you. >> Okay, so you don't want to talk to me? Do we need anything else here? >> I tried. DCF's coming. Dude, like literally What's her name? DCF should not come. We were gone less than an hour. I've never left my daughter >> to you. in my life. >> something to you. Can I tell you? I've never left my daughter in my life. Okay. Okay? You're going to be quiet and listen. I don't care how long you were gone for. You were gone for more than an hour because the motel gave you over an hour as a courtesy No, they didn't. Tell it to the judge, lady. You don't leave a 6-year-old by herself in a motel >> in my life. >> time so now you can get that off your bucket list. Great. Great. I she was asleep. Did you? a big circle went under that boat? That might have been a big turtle. Yep. No, it's like a sea turtle. It's like a real big one. Okay. We can go. We can go. black What's your date of birth? What's your date of birth? What is your date of birth? I heard you the first time that you said it. What is your date of birth? I looked you in the eyes the first, second, third time you said it. What is your date of birth? And what's a good phone number for you? What's a good What's a good phone number for you? I'm not in Florida. You guys have way worse an hour So, do you do you want to talk to me or not? With these rights in mind, do you want to talk to me? I don't want to listen until you answer my question. When they get back, say, "Where you been, slowpokes?" Okay? Did you say slowpokes? Uh-oh, they might be beating us. I see them walking over there. No, we're going to beat them. I didn't hear you the first time. Okay. It's 12 now. Yeah. Could you write a statement for me? Absolutely. She just kind of needs to know what information you're going to want. And then I told her you might Well, it'll just be just your basic >> Yeah. on there. Yeah. Here. Um It's just So, these are called sworn written statements. Um so, basically you have you saw the whole like case >> Coming down from the Yeah. Yeah. Um No, I can't do that. No, no. No, that's Yeah. Let me get you a clipboard. If I want to be anonymous, like can I just like exclude I'll put very basic information in there. Um if you can do a phone number though. Okay. Um and then I'll just put like your first last name and here the only reason is why is cuz detectives might want to reach out to you. Okay. So. I'll try and put as basic in there as I can. I won't put your address or anything like that. >> Yeah. My name I will be. I'll talk That's my lieutenant. I'll talk to him and see if if that's fine. Just start working on this and I'll talk to him, okay? >> I'll just like write something but I'm not going to write like my name or That's fine like if that's okay. That's fine. Just start writing and and I'll I'll see what he says about it, okay? Okay. I'm I didn't I'm sorry. You just You just basically showed up and helped him watch the child, right? She came out of the elevator crying. Right. And I cuz I was down here getting stuff from the wall like candy bars. >> Yeah. I mean And she came out crying. So, I was yeah. I and and and be on the record. If if you decline, that's that's fine. >> on the record. I just don't want to like identify myself if that's I don't know. I will be on the record but I don't want to identify myself. I don't know if that's like it's like contradicting. >> it won't do us any good. Not totally appreciate Will it help my case? Yeah. Yeah. She like had fist bumps and said, "I'll be back in a little bit." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Can we just go? You see all that know me. They weren't here. Can we just go? They're just people looking for drama. Please. They're just looking for drama. Come on. I have never left my daughter in my life. I went out to get a snack. I ended up having a drink and I came back. Please. She was sleeping. Let me back. This is terrible. I have never left my daughter in my life. Please. Nope. Nope. Okay. It's not going to change our uh uh Okay, cool. But I have never in my life She was charged with child neglect, but the charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. Thanks for watching. Be sure to subscribe for more videos like this.