Mom arrested after leaving 4 kids home alone for 4 days, deputies say

Mom arrested after leaving 4 kids home alone for 4 days, deputies say.

Key points

• 23 at Orlando International Airport and charged with four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
• Deputies responding to the home discovered four children, ages 14, 12, 11 and 9, with no adults present.
• "The Osceola County Sheriff's Office will not tolerate child neglect, " Sheriff Chris Blackmon remarked in an official note.
• When deputies received a 911 call shortly after 8: 30 p.m, the investigation began two days earlier.
• When deputies contacted Miller by phone, she remarked she was working in Las Vegas and planned to return to Florida on Oct.

Mom arrested after leaving 4 kids home alone for 4 days, deputies say. Anthony Thompson USA TODAY. Florida mother arrested after leaving four kids alone for four days.

In practice, a Florida mom was arrested after she went to Las Vegas on a work trip and left her children – ages 14, 12, 11 and 9 – without proper supervision. Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

In practice, a Florida mother was arrested after returning from a work trip to Las Vegas, where deputies say she left her four children at home without overnight supervision.

Irene Miller, 50, of Kissimmee, was arrested Oct. 23 at Orlando International Airport and charged with four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

When deputies received a 911 call shortly after 8: 30 p.m, the investigation began two days earlier. Oct. 21 from a child reporting that her 9-year-old brother had been injured by a falling dumbbell, authorities remarked.

Deputies responding to the home discovered four children, ages 14, 12, 11 and 9, with no adults present. Fire rescue personnel took the injured boy to Celebration Hospital for treatment, according to the sheriff's office. Mom arranged for babysitter to check on children, deputies say.

When deputies contacted Miller by phone, she remarked she was working in Las Vegas and planned to return to Florida on Oct. 23, authorities remarked.

Investigators learned Miller had left for the trip on Oct. 18. She informed deputies she had arranged for a babysitter to travel from Tampa in the mornings to prepare the children for school and check on them after school.

In practice, the babysitter was not required to stay overnight, according to the sheriff's office.

Meanwhile, the 9-year-old boy was treated and published from the hospital. The children's father was contacted and agreed to take all four children to his residence, authorities remarked. Miller arrested after returning to Florida.

Detectives arranged to meet Miller when her flight from Las Vegas arrived on the morning of Oct. 23. She was arrested as she exited the airplane and booked into the Orange County jail, according to the sheriff's office.

"The Osceola County Sheriff's Office will not tolerate child neglect, " Sheriff Chris Blackmon remarked in an official note. "These cases will be investigated, and charges will be brought against the parents who are not properly supervising or caring for their children."

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