A Florida woman was arrested and accused of leaving her four minor children, including an infant, alone while she went on a weekend cruise, according to police.
\n\nThe suspect, 29-year-old Nathalie Belizaire, of North Miami Beach, is accused of four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.
\n\nBelizaire’s attorney denied the allegations.
\n\nAccording to North Miami Beach police, the father of one of Belizaire’s children, who is 2 months old, had seen on a post on her WhatsApp story on Thursday “depicting what appeared to be a cruise ticket purchase.”
\n\nThat day, he spoke to Belizaire, who told him she would be dropping the children off with their great-grandmother, police said.
\n\nBut when he went to her apartment Saturday night, he saw the TV on through the blinds and heard the children talking inside, which led him to call 911, an arrest report states.
\n\nBoth police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded and forced entry into the residence.
\n\nThere, “all four minor children were discovered inside … without adult supervision and were hiding together in the bathroom,” police said.
\n\nBody camera video showed officers gathering the children and leading them outside.
\n\nWhen authorities spoke to the kids’ great-grandmother, she said…
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