A Key Largo woman was arrested Sunday evening for leaving a baby in a vehicle while she went grocery shopping.
The one year old child was left sleeping in the running vehicle for 36 minutes while 30 year old Yanese Tejada went into Publix in Key Largo. She told Deputy Ignacio Molina she left the motor running and the air conditioning on. She said she didn’t want to wake the child, who was sleeping in a car seat. She said she was not concerned about leaving the child alone because “This is Key Largo. Nothing happens in Key Largo”.
A Good Samaritan spotted the child in the car and, after waiting for about ten minutes, he called the Sheriff’s Office to report the incident at about 6:19 p.m.
Tejada was charged with child neglect and she was booked into jail.