Being a parent has never been easy. But sometimes the wrong choices of adults drag children into order. >> I don't know my name. I don't have my I have nothing. It's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 of y'all. I'm going to jail. >> I'm not into me out of these handcuffs and you have 3 seconds. You d I don't need to look at your time to jump out of the car. >> You want to get my mom in trouble? From a child's cry, desperate please to being abandoned in the cold rain, every moment is a warning about the cost of indifference in families. Florida opens with a crash, an eye injury, and a storm unleashed from the wheel of an unlicensed mother. >> You got your driver's license, man. >> No, I don't have nothing. I have nothing, bro. I have nothing. On July 8th, 2024, Florida was shaken by an emergency call about a serious accident involving a mother with no driver's license. Her car collided with another vehicle, leaving a child with an eye. Palm Beach County police rushed to the scene where a young boy was crying in panic and pain. >> What's going on? >> Are you Who's in the car? Just you? >> No. >> Huh? Who else is in the car? >> I have a baby. I got to go to jail. >> Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Let me see the baby. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Sit down, ma'am. Let me see the baby. Stop. >> Okay. You have him. You have him. I want to see him. >> Hey, buddy. Buddy, are you okay? >> And uh 26. You start my police. Hey, ma'am. Come here. Come here. >> Ma'am, come here. Ma'am, come here. >> You're not in trouble. Come here. Take a seat right here. But I need to call. >> Take a seat. Take a seat. I need to call. >> Okay. I need you to relax for me. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am, take a seat. Thank you. >> Give me a hug. >> Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Stop. Don't shake your baby like that. He was just an accident. Please get off of him. >> But we don't know what's wrong with him. Wait till fire rescue comes here, >> buddy. Just remain calm for me. Okay. All right. >> Ma'am, I need you to remain calm. Just take a seat on the curb. Ma'am, >> ma'am. Ma'am, can you watch your baby for a second? >> I can't. You told me not to touch him. >> Just hold him like Don't shake him. Just hold him like this. Okay. Give me one second. >> Mine are injured for a serious. >> Y'all have to come get him. Somebody has to come get him. >> Give me him. He has a cut. Give me your kid. He has a cut on his eye. >> I understand. >> Okay. So, give me your kid. Let me see your kids. >> Okay, buddy. >> I got to do >> take a seat. >> Worse, when asked to show her documents, she boldly said, "I don't have nothing." Yes, that's right. She didn't even have a driver's license. >> Take me, bro. You got your driver's license on you, man. >> No, I don't have nothing. I have nothing, bro. I have nothing. I have nothing, bro. I have nothing, bro. I have nothing. Just Can you just take me to state? Please take me to county, ma'am. >> I have nothing, sir. >> Is this vehicle registered to you? >> Yes, it's registered to me. >> What's your first name? >> Ma'am, what is your first name? >> Sir, please. I'm going to be honest with you. Y'all can look on my license plate and find that. right now. I need to figure out where my child is going to go. I'm sorry if I can't give you the answers that you need or that you want. And I know you don't give a you have a million cases on this a day. Please just give me give me some time to figure out where my kid is going to go. I don't have a first name. I don't have a last name. If you want my name, look up theing license plate or some [ __ ] Y'all have other ways to do it. Please just let me figure out where my kid is going to go. Let me figure it out. >> What part what part of me being here is not allowing you to do that? >> You asking me all these questions, bro. I'm trying to focus on you and I'm trying to focus on you crying. Bro, just give me a second. Please, dog. Please give me a second. Please, dog. >> Bro, it's >> okay, buddy. >> We hope it's going to be okay. >> She kept showing an uncooperative and resistant attitude, saying, "I don't feel safe." How absurd. Because when crashing her car straight into someone else's rear, she felt completely safe. >> What's your first name? >> Is your first name Sarah? Is your first name Sarah? >> What is it? >> Look, Dr. H. Ma'am, >> sir, I need to feel safe before you you come to me and asking me off. I don't How can I help you feel safe? >> I don't know. I've never been in this before. I don't know. I It's 12 of y'all, bro. It's so many of y'all. >> I don't know. In my child. I know I'm in trouble. I get it. I would be in trouble. But give me a second, bro. There's >> Why would you be in trouble? We're There's a lot of us here because there's a child involved. It's called a car accident for a reason. Okay. >> I just got to get help once once once once my baby is off of the scene, then I can speak to y'all clear minded. I don't want my child in protective services, CPS. I don't want him to get taken by y'all and I never see him again. I need to get someone here on the scene that could advocate to take him. Just give me that. >> Do you have Do you have a mom, a dad? >> No, I don't have >> Do you have anybody around here that can >> Oh, you pushing it, friend. You pushing, >> man. What's your name? What's your name? >> We're trying to figure out what's going on, but you're not telling us. >> Okay. Because I don't know. >> You don't know. You don't know your name? >> I don't know. I don't know my name. I don't have my I don't I have nothing, bro. Just give me a second. >> There's You're done with seconds. We either need your ID or you're going to be going to jail. >> I knew that. I knew that. >> You knew that for what? >> That from jump. Like >> from jump for what? What are you so worried? It's a car accident, >> bro. It's a car accident. >> Yes, I work plenty of them. He works plenty of them with me. He's bleeding out the out his face. >> Okay. And we have fire rescue coming. We're trying to get your information. >> That I appreciate you for having fire rescue coming. If I don't have no family member on the scene, y'all are going to take him wherever y'all want to. I will never see him ever again. Just let me get my peoples on the scene so I have a fighting mechanism cuz right now it's about 30 y'all versus me. And yes, I'm overexaggerating for sure, but it's a lot of y'all. I'm overwhelmed and I want to make sure that there are people here that could advocate for me. Y'all are advocating for each other. Give me one second. Your child's Your child's not going to go nowhere until we have your information. >> That's even better. Thank even better. >> They're not being handed over to No, we don't take kids. We help people. We can't help you until you give us your information. >> And you are not doing that. That you can get in trouble for. >> I know that. I understand that. >> I understand that. >> Ma'am, do you need EMS? >> No. >> You don't need EMS. Okay. Just take me wherever you got. >> Okay. >> It didn't stop there. Police went on to uncover an even more horrifying truth. >> Get her name. >> I'm assuming she was R S or something. >> But she's not giving I don't know what kind of mental state she's in. >> Okay. He screamed louder than this. I put her >> seems like he's >> No car seat. >> No car seat. >> Okay. Hi. Come here, Bubba. Hey, what's your name? >> We're going to go with them. >> What's your name? Hey, where's what's your name? Where's mom or dad? In the car in the car still? >> Yeah. >> Are they not able to get out? >> I guess he was. They found him. You found him where? >> He was in between the back seat before. He >> wasn't seen. He wasn't caring. So, I guess he was not where he was supposed to be. >> No car seat at all. >> And uh is that the parent? >> And where's the driver? Is that them sitting in the passenger seat? >> Yes. >> Okay, >> buddy. You're going to go with them for a minute. Okay. >> What's your name, buddy? >> I got you. >> I got you. >> And this time, patience had run out. The cold handcuffs were pulled out, fully answering her challenge. Take me to jail. >> I can never ask. I have not been thinking. I don't know. Y'all going to take me to jail? What? What we doing? What we doing? >> We're trying to help you, but you're >> Okay. How y'all going to How can y'all help me? We're trying to start a process here to work a craft scene. Names, we need information. >> Bro, I don't have no names. I have no name. Listen, my child is in the back of a ambulance because you're involved in an accident. >> My point exactly. So, where what are y'all going to do with me? Am I going to get in y'all? Okay. Well, I'll take I'll go in custody with y'all if y'all take me. I've never been in an accident. I don't because I don't want I don't want nothing to happen unexpected. It's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 of y'all. I'll get my ramp ID out yourself. >> Stop. >> That's fine. >> I got to use control. It's not worth using control. >> That's fine. >> Y'all get a rapid ID out that way. >> This didn't even have to happen. >> I know it didn't have to happen. Y'all could do it, but I was waiting. I was waiting for y'all to do it because this is what happens. This is what it is. This is what it is. This is what it is. EMS captain, I'm sorry. I have I have nothing. I have nothing. I I don't know about my child. I'm hoping he's okay. I'm hoping he's okay. Can y'all talk to me somewhere else? I'm on the middle of my eyes. This is a lie. You won't give us your kids involved in an accident. Great parenting. >> You think you you take care of it. Take care of it. You think it's so damn easy. You have an easy job. The [ __ ] is we talking about? [ __ ] are we talking about, bro? Man, I don't want to talk about it because I don't really talk about it. Take me to jail. Do whatever y'all got to do. I'm ready. I'm ready. Take me wherever y'all need to take me. I'm tired of standing out here explaining to y'all all of this. >> You haven't explained. >> It's a lie. It's I ran into the back of somebody. Y'all seen it. >> Okay. >> Y'all seen it, bro. >> It's in car accident. >> Bro, I have a kid in there. Did y'all see a car seat? Anybody saw a car seat? >> Nobody saw me. Nobody saw a car seat. So then that's just it. Bro, I don't want to tell you nothing about him. Y'all will figure it out. If not, come find me. >> Are you Are you worried about >> God blessed him? I'm worried about going to jail because there's no car seat. >> You know all that is there's no car seat. >> Let me talk. You know all that is in the state of Florida is a ticket. >> Yes. I don't have money to afford a ticket. Do you know that? Do you know after a while I'm going to get issued in a war? A warrant. A warrant. I'm going to jail. I'm going to jail. Take me. I don't want to explain. I have erratic issues. I go off. I go. I don't want to explain. >> But nobody here said they were going to issue a ticket. >> I don't I don't want to explain. >> Do you understand that? son's name. >> Just take me wherever you need to take me. >> Why can't you tell me your son? >> Take me because I don't want to, bro. I don't need y'all to know who I am. Find out who you are. >> Exactly. So, just find out when you find out, bro. Just take me, bro. Take me. >> Y my damn scarf. Y. >> But even then, she stubbornly resisted, forcing police to take the next step. >> You want to go drive by her address? >> I don't have a house. I don't have a goddamn house. How about y'all call the Louiswis Center and ask them can they find a bastard? How about that? >> How about How about I'm not going nowhere. What the hell? Y'all think I'm dumb enough to run for y'all with things on my head? >> Dumb enough to not give us your name. Dumb enough to talk yourself in a hand find that out, bro. What is that? What is that? >> What is it? What is it? A fingerprint? >> Yes. >> Y'all are crazy. >> We're not crazy. >> Y'all are >> We're just trying to do our job and you're resisting it for some reason. Y must a fingerprint so crazy. >> Y'all went off. I'm a good person cuz I'm telling y'all. >> Will you just put your finger on it? >> I'm a good person so I'm telling y'all. >> Please deal mean as hell. >> We're just trying to help you. You're like resisting us for no reason at all. >> All right. Got him. >> Got this one. >> Get that. >> No, I need this one. I still got fight in me >> for no reason. >> Yes, because y'all y'all are y'all doing a lot. Y'all are doing a lot. >> We're just trying to do our job. >> And I'm telling y'all, y'all can do Can y'all ask is there any can they sit me in the car? I will give them my finger willingly. >> We need it right here right now. >> It already restarted. It takes so long. >> Yes, it restarted. I'm holding my finger. >> I'm not talking to you. >> Do you have any family that you want around your child that can be at the hospital? >> Yes. You got to give me a second so I can see. Come on, lady. You're stubborn. >> What is your problem? >> Just tell them to go. What is your problem? >> Calm down. >> No, you need to cooperate with us. >> Y'all are needing something from me and y'all putting me through hell for it. >> Because you won't break off. What y'all going to do? Come on, bro. He breaking my fingers. You hear what I'm saying? >> Emergency contact. >> From a simple traffic mistake, everything escalated into a 17-minute standoff. And the mother calmly chose jail over cooperation. Yeah, cuz she's a shitty parent. >> No, it's not about me being in charge, bro. Y'all not listening to me. Nobody wants to listen to me, bro. >> Hey, put her in mine. Put her in mine cuz she's going to jail. >> Yes. Sit me in my car and I will tell y'all. >> Bro, sit me wherever y'all got to sit me, bro. Y'all got me in the middle of theing street in front of everybody. I am a dumb and I'm slow as And I hope y'all get that. I hope y'alling get that. Hey, just can you pull out and search for people and uh but I can I can write her >> write me all the tickets. I got that. >> Yeah, I'll do the car seat ticket. >> Are you causing all these problems because your license is suspended? >> Yes, that's exactly >> We know that. What's the What is a ticket? Is that what you're fighting about is over a ticket? >> Fighting about >> all that for a ticket. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. >> It is. It is. Take me >> for what though? You could have got a ticketing and went at one time. >> You don't know me personally, so just stay there. >> You're causing all these problems by yourself. >> Okay, bet. You don't think I want these problems? You think I caused them for no reason? You don't think I want these problems? >> You do want these problems. >> Exactly. That's why it's happening. I could have just gave y'all my name. >> You could have I don't know what your deal is. >> Not listening, bro. You looked up. Is >> she single? >> What? >> Trying to use my ID or my rampid ID on her. She putting her fingers over. >> All this over a suspended driver's license. Yeah, nonsense. >> You just get a notice through for that. >> You get a ticket. Go about your way >> or nothing. >> The mother was charged with child DWLS, resisting and failure to identify. Under Florida law, she could face up to 2 years in prison, one year of probation, a $2,500 fine with bail estimated at around $3,000. Fortunately, the child only suffered a minor eye injury. But if such recklessness continues, the risk of death is inevitable. Hopefully, the mother will know when to stop to protect herself and guide her child safely through life. But Florida didn't stop there. Just a few months back in Marion, we saw another drama again involving a steering wheel and a child. >> I told you I was already fine and you want to be a stupid. >> Okay. On January 6th, 2021, Marian County, Florida police received a report of a woman picking up her child while driving erratically hitting traffic cones with one stuck under her car. Witnesses said she seemed to be dozing off. But when police arrived, the mother, Rodriguez, firmly denied being drunk despite all evidence against her. >> What's going on? >> Doesn't car. >> Okay, but you ran over my cone. >> No, I didn't. >> Yes, ma'am. You did. Do you have your driver's license on you? Yes. >> Can I have it, please? >> Miss Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Okay. This is um a food stamp card. >> I'm so sad. >> Okay. So, what's going on? >> Me and my husband are getting divorced. >> Okay. I can't go to school. I have to take them. Just please let me go home. >> How much have you had to drink today? >> 180. >> Nothing. I'm just sad. Well, there's war going on, right? >> Who are your children? Please, just go home. >> No, ma'am. I can't let you drive this vehicle. You know why, right? I'm trying to wait till our parking lot clears out here a little bit, right? Cuz you have children that go here, right? >> Okay. Please park our car. >> You're parked right No, ma'am. I'm right here. Don't leave. Do not leave, Miss Rodriguez. I'm not kidding. Put it in park right now. Put it in park. Turn the car off. Miss Rodriguez, >> I have Mike. >> Listen, listen. We're at school here. Do you want to do this in front of the children? You're I understand. You can't leave, hun. You're intoxicated right now. >> No, I am not. >> Can you please turn the vehicle off for your safety and safety of everyone else's? Please. >> I will park my car and I will walk home. >> Well, I'm not going to let you walk home yet, but I need you to turn the car off. >> No. >> And we'll park it after what? >> I will park my car. >> I'm not I'm not debating with you. >> There's nothing intoxicated about me. Do you want to do some Spritey test for me? Do you want to do it right now or can we wait till these vehicles leaves for the safe? Listen, listen. I'm going to tell you though. Listen. >> No. >> Miss Rodriguez, listen. Listen. We have vehicles here. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Come on. >> Do a soriety test. >> Okay. >> Then she broke down, releasing all the bottled up struggles inside, including a painful divorce. >> Stand back here at the back of your vehicle. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> What do you want? >> I don't want you to follow. I don't want Hey. Okay. >> I'm not I'm not intoxicated. >> Okay, then what's going on today? >> I am having a hard time. >> And I understand you're having a hard time, but having a hard time doesn't make make sense right now. Miss Rodri, you guys have a Just have a seat. Can you sit on the curb? I don't want you to fall over. >> Talk. Okay. I I don't know what it's like to go through a war, so I can't talk to you about that. >> I'm sorry. >> It's okay. >> We're going to talk about this. Okay. Okay. Please just sit back in my car. >> No, I can't let you get in the car. >> You can take my keys. You can take my keys. >> Okay. Sit right here with your feet for pointed out to me. Just sit down with your feet pointed out. No. Point your feet out for me. What? >> Everybody. Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Just please. >> Are your Were the kids okay? >> Yes. The kids weren't in there. >> Okay. The kids weren't. That makes Okay. I worry about your children. I'm here every day for your kids. Listen, my kids are good kids. I'm going through a hard time through my divorce. Everybody does it. >> Don't act like they don't. >> Hey, I'm not going to tell you my life's easy some days. I My kids are really good kids and I've never had any problems. I don't have a drug addiction. I don't have any problems. All I'm having is a hard time on my divorce because I don't want it. So, please just don't me to those stupid people. We're doing the best that we can. >> They're homeschooled. >> Your kids are homeschooled. Okay. So, they All right. So, they're here to take their test. >> Okay. >> And I'm just trying to put together, but it's hard. But I love my husband. Just don't do this to me. Please. This is the last thing that I need. >> Leaving the police moved and hearing her play. Please don't arrest me. >> Are you funny? I really just feel lost with my family. >> Feel lost without your husband. >> Oh, how long have you guys been together? >> 20 years. >> And that's a long time, right? Yeah. >> Most of our adult lifehood, isn't it? Is a long time. >> Please don't arrest me. >> Do you think we made a best decision today? >> No. >> Okay. >> I didn't. >> Do you think you could have called someone to help you out today to get your kids to school? You don't have any family at all? >> I don't have any family around. Nothing. You don't have a neighbor that would help you? >> Nothing. >> Where'd you move from? >> Ohio. We're a half family and everything. >> Okay. >> Please don't do this to me. Please. >> I'm not doing it, Miss Rodriguez. Right. >> You're not. >> No. >> You're not. >> Who made this choice today, Miss Rodriguez? Me. >> Exactly. >> Please. >> And I have to do my job, right, Miss Rodriguez? >> Yes. Do you work? >> I'm out of here. >> Nope. Don't. Remember, we're going to get in trouble. Do not come. >> I do not care. Don't touch me. >> Do you want to go get my car? >> Do not touch me. >> Do you want to go get my car? >> Do not touch me. Do not touch me. >> How many children do you have here? One, two, three, four. >> I have two. >> Two children. >> But the pitiful image quickly vanished, replaced by a defiant and strongly uncooperative attitude. >> I don't care about you and your feelings. I care about my marriage and what's happening. >> And I can't help you fix that right now. I can't help you fix that. Can I just leave me alone? You want to arrest me? Arrest me. I don't give a [ __ ] Can I please have a secret? I don't care. You want to take my kids away? Then take my kids away. >> Say that. But I listen. I can't don't want you to get hurt. >> Can I please have a cigarette? >> I'm going to tell you right now. >> I listen. You have though. You have to listen to me talk first. I just told you that I'm a pretty patient person and I'm willing to help out in anything I can, but I cannot let you school smoke on school grounds. Hey, >> give me up. Miss Rodriguez. >> No. What is the problem with me giving up? You're going to Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I will sit down. I swear to God. I will sit down. >> I know you are. Cuz you're going to see. Do you want to move your arm so it doesn't hurt? Do you want to move your arm so it doesn't hurt? >> I will not. >> You want to move your arm? >> I will not. I will not. Please stop. I will not sit down and remain calm. Please don't do this again >> until we can get another unit here. You decided to be mean to me. >> Look, I will. >> I'm still very patient with you right now, but you are not getting out of these handcuffs anymore because I gave you three chances just like I do. Ma'am, not right now. >> Can you call my husband, please? >> No, ma'am. Not right now. >> Can you please seriously please just call my husband? Please, please. >> Maybe in a little bit. >> I'm sorry, >> but not right now. Please, can you just please? He's 4 hours away. I swear to God, he's in Fort Myers. >> Okay. >> She even challenged, "You have 3 seconds to take the handcuffs off." And began counting. 1 2 3. >> Get me out of these handcuffs now. >> Do you want me to help you sit back up? >> I am not going to be embarrassed in front of my children. >> And I tried to prevent that, but remember, >> no, you did not. You right now. Get me out of these handcuffs. And you have 3 seconds. 1 2 3. >> But of course, the police were not intimidated. >> Okay, listen, Mr. Rodriguez. So, my other deputies here, Mr. or Deputy Oz. >> Listen, I can stand up by like goddamn yourself. >> Remember, we're on school grounds and your kids are inside. >> Do you care about everything? >> No, you don't. I told you I was already fine and you want to be a stupid >> Okay. Are you going to do these exercises willingly and cooperative? >> I do it willingly and cooperatively. I don't speak right because I have a disability. You dumbass [ __ ] >> I didn't say that you didn't speak right. I've never I don't make fun of anyone's disability. >> What's your disability? >> I have a learning disability. I don't speak right. >> And they consistently conduct the DUI test according to procedure. >> Maintain this position till the exercise is over. All right. Keep your head still and I want you to follow a stimulus. The stimulus is going to be the tip of my pen here. Do you see that? >> Yep. >> All right. So, I'm going to have you follow this stimulus. I want you to maintain the position you're in while you do so. Follow it with only your eyes, not your head. You know what I mean by that? >> So, don't move your head. Just follow the tip of my pin with your eyes. The exercise is going to begin. Remember, just to look with your eyes. >> I got it. >> You think I'm drunk and I'm not. I'm just going through our time. We can do this for hours. All right. >> Cuz I >> All right. So, we're going to move on to the next exercise. You see this white line in front of you right here? Pretty clearly. >> Yep. >> I want you to place your left foot on the line. I want you to place your right foot. Yep. Left. >> And I can't I'm not I don't have stability. >> Okay. Place your left foot on the line for me. >> Okay. >> I want you to place your right foot on the line in front of the left touching the heel to the toe. >> That doesn't matter. What doesn't matter? >> The fact that I'm not stable. >> I didn't say you weren't stable. >> My foot. Don't you see that it's bruised? >> Okay. Are you able to complete this exercise? >> No, I'm not. >> Why not? >> Because my foot is bruised. >> Well, like I said, we're giving you the opportunity to do the exercises. So, it's up to you on whether or not you want to do >> the next exercise because this we can't just skip it. >> My foot is up and bruised. I can do what I can. >> Okay. So, you're saying you can't do this exercise? >> Okay, fine. What do you want me to do? >> It's a question. Can you do this exercise or not? >> Yes, I can. >> You have >> Hey, come back over here. Stand still. And when he's done with the instructions, then then you can decide if you can do it. Remember how we talked about this earlier? Okay. >> Let him speak. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. So, I'm going to read you the instructions. Miss Rodriguez. >> God damn it. >> Miss Rodriguez, me. >> Shut up. >> Do you want to do this exercise or not? >> It doesn't work because my foot is [ __ ] >> can't do this exercise. >> Oh, >> all right. I'm going to read you the instructions. Place your left foot on the line. >> Damn it. >> Place your left foot on the line. Place your right foot on the line ahead of your left foot. With the heel of your right foot against the toe of your left foot, put your arms down at your side. So, it's going to look like this. >> Yeah, you can look down at me for reference. >> I don't need to look at your ass. >> I'm not asking for that. For reference. What the >> Are you going to listen to the instructions? >> You're not going to listen to my instructions. >> What do you want me to goddamn do? >> But you're not listening to my instructions >> because it doesn't work. God damn it. I already showed you that I could [ __ ] focus. >> Let's do the next one. We're moving on to the next one. If that one doesn't work, we'll move on. >> All right, let's do the next exercise. >> No, I want to do this exercise. No, I'm not going to go back to it. >> My kid is looking at me and I [ __ ] >> As expected, she failed the test. When it ended, the handcuffs were secured. >> Deputy Osborne, he's going to read the instructions. >> Going to read the instructions for the next exercise. All right. Listen. Please stand with your feet together with your arms by your side just like this. Okay? If you need to, you can look at me for the reference. >> What? >> Feet together, hands at your side. Do not start the exercise until I tell you to do so. Do you understand so far? >> Yes. >> Okay. When I tell you to do so, I want you to raise one leg off the ground. Either leg, it's up to you which one you want to do. You to raise it 6 in off the ground. About the height of the soda. No. In front of you like this with your toes pointed forward. You see, >> it doesn't matter what you want. What do you want? >> Do you want to do these exercises or not? No, I'm not. Yes, I am. Okay, fine. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. I don't have a person. Yes, I am. You're lucky that the officer is very patient, too, cuz I told you from the beginning. Listen, if you don't tell me what your kids' names are, I'm going to have to make an announcement and the children are going to have to come up in front of other children because you can't give me their name. >> We're standing up. We're standing up. Let's go. Please look at me. Can I do the test? Can I do the test again? >> We already did. Please. We already did the test. >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no. >> Listen, I didn't want to listen, but I will listen now. >> The mother was arrested for DUI with a passenger under 18 in the vehicle. Under Florida law, she could face up to 9 months in prison, a license suspension of 180 days to one year, and a fine of up to $1,000. Bail typically ranges from $500 to $2,000. According to court records, she was held overnight and released on bond the following morning. This video not only warns of the dangers of drinking and driving, but also serves as a stern reminder of parental responsibility. No matter how painful it is, don't let your pain become a danger to your children and others. But Florida isn't the last chapter, and danger isn't only from the weed. Sometimes it comes from leaving a child in the cold rain on an Ohio highway. >> Yeah, I just saw my mom. She just hit pass by. On February 8th, 2025, Beaver Creek police received an emergency call about a 13-year-old boy walking alone on the highway in freezing rain. When they arrived, they found him shivering in the cold, still refusing to explain, saying, "I don't want my mom to get in trouble." How old are you? You're not in trouble. >> How old are you? >> Do your parents know you're out here? >> Yeah, I'm really close to home. >> That's the only reason we were called is cuz it's real dangerous. It's rainy and there's cars driving fast. Where's Where's home? Get my mom in trouble. >> What's that? >> You want to get my mom in trouble? >> I'm going to get your mom in trouble. I just want you to get home safely. Give me one second. I'm going to turn my rear lights off. Yeah, you're not in trouble. I just don't want you hit by a car. It's raining and my mom in trouble. >> Is there a reason your mom in trouble? She doing okay? You're in trouble. Your life. >> Okay. Now, >> okay. So, did you run away today or how'd you end up out here in the rain? It's cold. >> Yeah. I was uh meeting the second and she got close and so I asked okay and she really didn't want to. >> Okay. >> But I figured and she's been following me. She knows where I am. >> Is she out here looking for you? >> She knows the path I was taking but she like >> Okay. Um here. Let me get you out of the cold. I'll get you home. Okay. That's all I'm worried about. I want to get you home. Okay. It's almost below freezing. You're soaking wet. Are you cold? >> Not really. >> Not really. After a moment of silence, the boy spoke, beginning to tell the whole story. >> What's your mom's name? >> I don't remember Jim. >> I think I've met her. I think I've met her before. Do you stay with your grandparents sometimes? >> Yeah. >> I was actually out there with you that day. Do you Do you remember me talking to you? >> Okay. Yeah, I remember. I was out with you guys. You doing okay? >> We're doing okay. >> You live with your mom full time now or you still >> Yeah, we live with my mom full time now. We got it cleaned up and we were doing pretty good. >> Okay, that's good. You feeling all right? You're >> Yeah. >> So, again, so tell me again how you ended up here. So, I just wanted a break because I was yelling at her and saying, I didn't want to get her angry. Okay. And then I just asked if I could walk and then she didn't want me to, but um so then she's been like following me like she's parked there. She's asking make sure I'm okay and all that stuff. >> So, what where did you get out of the car? Do you remember like what business you were by or what street you were by? >> I don't know where it was. You go there, you turn left and there's a bypass. It was almost around there. >> Did she pass you or did she did she turn a different direction? She's been like going and stopping around me like she's making sure. Yeah. Like she's always like >> Do you know where she's at now? >> I don't I'm assuming she's like parked up right on this first road or at home. Normally she like does it and she like stops like at like a good spot that's like public and she stopped to make sure I'm okay. I'm pretty sure she felt like she really wanted me to get in and probably by um there she makes sure I >> Okay. So you guys got in a little argument or you were mad about what happened then you got out. >> I didn't want to cuz I was >> Did you ask to be get out of the car or >> Yeah. I said hurtful things and I didn't want to say more. I asked to step out and she was reluctant and didn't really want me to but she made sure I put on everything and then I had a and then she's been watching me stopping me making sure I'm okay and stuff like that. >> Shockingly this wasn't the first time police had encountered him. They had previously found him in a messy unsanitary home. Were you out with me on that call where we almost busted through the door because the flies were in the windows and turned out she actually lived there. Were you out with me on that? It was Sean. So, we opened a CPS case on this mom because for the horrible conditions cuz the house was there was like dead animals lying around and we thought she somebody was dead in there. It was so bad. So, this is her kid. So, I recognized him. They got in some argument. She dumped him out of the car at the bike path on Graange Hall and drove home. Let him to walk. He's soaking wet. This is the second time we've been called for. No parent in their right mind would. He realized he forgot his cell phone in the car and she drove by and held it up to show him that she had it and kept driving left. He might be on the spectrum or have some autism I think is is in the history. He seems okay. He doesn't seem injured in any way, but he's walking along 835, you know, a high-speed road with no sidewalk in this weather and he's soaking wet. I don't think any parent in their right mind would dump their kid on a busy road like this and have have them walk miles home in the rain and the cold. >> At the same time, the mother quietly went to find her child. still doing okay. >> Yeah, I just saw my mom. She just hit pass by. >> Did she just pass by? >> Yeah, I was going to get out, but I didn't. >> Okay. She went that way. >> She was coming this way, coming back to us. >> She was looking for you. >> Yeah, I think she looked at us and I think she might know it's me, but I'm not sure. >> She might be turning back around. >> Yeah, she might be. I don't know. >> And explained, but the truth emerged. This wasn't the first time she had left her child alone on the highway. >> Yep. Yep, we do. I don't know if you remember. I was I was out with you guys before at your house on straight arrow. Yeah, >> we found him running running around the world, right? Yeah. >> Okay. Um, go ahead. I got all his flag. Go ahead and explain to me why >> he was in a really angry mood about the competition that he had been at. He was cursing at me. He was trying to jump out of the car. >> I was getting concerned about him and so he pulled over. He got out of the car and he's been walking home and I've come up on him multiple times. He's like, "Come on, get in the car." He won't. >> Has this happened before? >> Yes. >> So, I've been out here with him for probably 20 minutes. Where? Or where have you been during that time? >> I was trying to find him. I didn't know. >> So, how did he end up out of your sight? >> Because he was walking this way and turn around and come on back. I wasn't sure. >> You could have followed him slowly. Okay. And why not? >> I was trying to give him some space to cool down. >> Okay. So, I know last time I was out with you guys, he was staying with my grandparents part time. Has he been with you full time for a while? >> Yes. And he's really been doing well. This is the first recent up in the country where he claims he's been googling things like that. So, uh that's what >> today is googling ways to commit suicide. >> Well, today he didn't talk about that. >> Okay. So, he's he's 13. He says he's better off. You know how it sounds. You're leaving him in 30° weather in the rain to walk miles home. He's out of your sight for 20 plus minutes. Yes, sir. >> He's a the juvenile on the on the younger side on a busy highway with no sidewalk. >> Yes, sir. I thought he had you let him out of your sight. >> He said that while he's been walking this, he's seen you pass by a few times and not stopped. >> I have stopped every single >> But before you said you didn't know he was here, you thought he was on grand. >> I haven't stopped him on this road. >> I'm going to make a call to our supervisor. Okay. I'm not I'm not going to release them to you yet. What I'm going to have you do is go sit in your car. We're going to pull over there and get off the road. Just kind of decide how we want to handle it, right? Because it's it's kind of an unusual situation. I know there's there's history you have with CPS, right? Is there still an open case? Enclosed. This road has no sidewalk. What's the reason you let him out of your vehicle? Why did you drive away, to be honest, to make a little bit of an impact on him that >> make him feel like you might leave him? Not that I would I would never leave him, but he's telling me like better off without me. And so I was like, "Well, let me let him out of his sight for a little bit." And just let that kind of reality hit. >> Okay. >> If that makes sense. Not that I was never going to come back for just to kind of make a little bit nothing. >> Okay. >> So the police immediately made her understand the serious consequences of her actions. So maybe a bit of poor judgment because you know we got the the no sidewalks and the weather, right? It's inherently dangerous walking along this road. I'm not even sure if it's legal for an adult to run along this road. It's considered a highway. >> Yeah, it was considered a highway. And also the um he could be picked up by a stranger. He was out of your sight for an extended period of time. >> He could have been gone and you never would have known. He's a nice kid, right? I've talked to him. He's always smiling. He's always friendly. Did you consider the possibility of a stranger rolling up? Hey, let me get you help. And then you never see him again. But I didn't know that you caught him at first and so I was still looking for him. I definitely thought about that. I was scared looking for him, but I thought he was okay. And then when I couldn't find him, it started to get really really >> Okay, go ahead. Have a seat in your car. We're going to get off the road. We'll pull into the entrance over there. >> Just stay there. We'll pull over there and get off the road just we're not walking traffic yet. Although it was a minor incident, the mother was arrested and held on a childment charge misdemeanor. Under Ohio law, she could face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Bail ranges from $1,000 to $10,000. According to court records, she was held for two nights. CPS reopened the investigation and the case is still ongoing. I'm going to release him back to you in a second. Okay. I'm going to talk to him. I want him to hear anything I'm saying. Okay. I called a supervisor and discussed the situation. Okay. What we're going to do is issue a criminal summon for tried to with the mandatory court did. Okay? You're not going to jail. It's a misdemeanor, but based on so kind of what I've discussed with you a little bit, the facts of the situation, his his age, the location, and the roadways involved, the temperature, the weather, um the fact that he was out of view for an extended period of time, that we had to be called out by a stranger, right, to find him. All of those things are taken into account, right? Um so the citation be issued. It's essentially it's called trans for a lapse of due care that you're responsible for because he's in your custody. Okay. Any questions about that? Again, it's Yeah. Yeah. I'm going send him over to you a second. I just wanted to again I told him, you know, he's he's worried about about you, right? You're his mom. So, um tell him you're not going to jail. Nobody's in trouble. So, I told him cuz this is between you and us and the court. He doesn't have to know. There's no reason for that. Okay. It is going to open up another another CPS case. Okay. So, is that is the the previous one is that the first one? >> Yes, sir. Okay. So, this would be the second one. Yes. >> So, here's what I just called Brad cuz all this stuff's new to me. All right. He said if we can find someone to watch watch the kid um that we need to actually lock her up. So, we actually need to just write her a ticket, lock her up. It'll be next day, next available court date, 11:00 a.m. What we can do is we could follow her back to the house. That way, we can drop her car away. We don't have to tow it. Release the child back to the grandpa and then and then put her. Okay. >> You can probably go sit in grandpa's car now if you want. >> Grandpa know he's going to take. While tension between parents and children can happen, leaving a child alone in a dangerous situation is neither a proper solution nor a correct way to teach as it can cause both physical and emotional harm. These stories may be over, but the pain and consequences remain. We've seen how just one moment of irresponsibility, one wrong choice by an adult can put a child in. Parenting is not only about love, but also about the alertness and courage to protect and guide a child through life. Don't let indifference become a tragedy for the innocent. What do you think about these cases? Leave a comment below and don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to the channel for more useful content. [Music]