On July 1st, 2024, a woman came across a young child wandering the streets with no adult in sight. The little boy was wearing only dirty pajamas and a soiled diaper, prompting immediate concern and a rapid response from deputies.
"There are two boys." "Yeah." "Yeah." "No, nobody found you."
"No, I've been there for over an hour." "Do you know where you found her at?" "By walking towards the street. I was out running and I noticed her and I was like, 'This does not look good.' and she um I asked her where her parents were and she said she didn't she clearly."
"Hello." "Your house you have a dog let's go this way." "I'm thinking so she was walking towards like the main road there." "She said that yellow car I mean but I don't know what she is she likes the car But nobody has come out and looked for her in the last hour."
"Okay. Well,." "Status check." "I think she's just going."
"She's just going around places." "Yeah, because when I tried to do the same thing, she had me over there and over here."
"I don't think she really knows. Go see if there's a car seat in that yellow car. Certainly from the looks of her, who knows if she even has a car seat 21 status check 211 104. And if there's a golf unit available, can they run by the district office and grab a uh child seat in B51 this way?"
"No. Well,." "So you found her." "I don't have anyone available in the area right now."
"I'll show you exactly where I found her." "26. There's no rush."
"And my daughter said that she saw her walking around like over there. What's next? What's next? Could you go to the district office and get a car seat for the 2-year-old and bring it to Delta 211 who's off clubhouse drive?"
"I saw her right by that Mustang." "So, was by the Mustang. Was she in the grass or in the roadway?"
"She was sitting Well, she saw me. She was in the road and then when she saw me, she ran and sat by the tire. And I kind of went and looked to see where she went, but I didn't see a parent." "And I walked."
"And you've had her for about an hour now." "Oh, I clearly Yeah. Longer than that. It's bad."
"Yeah, I've had her for a long time. Hey, which unit are you saying it over there?"
"I feel better. Well, what I'm going to do is uh I'm going to try and just make contact see if we can't find a parent real quick. If not, I need to get a written statement from you just where you found her. Just kind of describing it."
"Yeah."
"Um and then I'm going to call DCF real quick, too. So, you got you got a few minutes. I know you've been an hour. I hate to put you out like this, but help me out. Um if this child has been without care for an hour other than with being in your care um that's a problem."
"So." "Yeah, it clearly is." "Um yeah, I'm going to get her started on some statements." "Um."
"Um." "I got uh I think Spanelli's on his way with a baby." "I'm going to call DCF up. I think she says at least over an hour."
"Yeah." "So I'm going to take we're taking custody. I mean, I called you guys the first 911 call." "I'm going to pull my car up so we get the nice shade over here."
"9:16. It was the first call and I was there 10 minutes prior to that." "Okay. I'm going to get a statement from you and um we're going to take this child into custody and."
"Okay." "Hopefully, I can identify the parents and go from there." "I'll be right back."
"Oh, yeah. Who made the peanut butter sandwich? Did you make it?" "He's coming. This is That's."
"Is it mine?" "Mine." "You put her up front if you wanted." "That's mine."
"Yeah." "I don't know if it works with our seat belts." "She's in our custody. I'm going to have DCF meet us at the district office. right here."