A 29-year-old mother has been charged with child neglect after she left her baby in the car while she drank at Deerfield Beach bar.
According to WPLGLocal 10, the woman was arrested on Monday after an anonymous person reported seeing a baby left alone in a car in the parking lot. Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) deputies were called to Padano Bar & Grill on Hillsboro Boulevard where the woman left the baby, per a probable cause affidavit.
When the deputies reached the location at about 1:15 a.m., they found the child alone in the back of a black Hyundai, the report detailed.
According to the affidavit, “the car was off and all the windows were rolled up.”
The mother of the baby — identified as Jennifer Potts — told the deputies that she left the baby in the car only for a “couple of seconds” and went inside the bar to get her phone and driver’s license, per Local 10 News.