Mother arrested for child neglect after young children tell neighbor she’s dead

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Shalesia Janay Cave, 25, was arrested early this morning after two of her young children knocked on a neighbor’s door and said she was dead.

At about 1:02 a.m. on August 1, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to The Grove at Sweetwater Preserve, where a witness said two of Cave’s children, 5 and 6 years old, had knocked on her door and said their mother was dead…

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