Overview
- Deputies responded around 10:30 p.m. on March 7 to the CW Shoreline Bar and found the girl crying and seated alone on a bar stool, according to the arrest affidavit.
- The affidavit says an argument began when the mother wanted to go to the Red Coconut Club and the child asked to return to their hotel room.
- Witnesses reported the mother left after making an obscene gesture, and deputies later located her dancing with a drink inside the Red Coconut Club.
- Deputies documented signs they described as impairment, while the mother told officers she believed her daughter was with her or back at the hotel.
- The child was released to her grandfather and Florida’s Department of Children and Families was notified as the neglect case proceeds in court.