Pines mom gets DUI after cop spots her driving with 5-year-old hanging out window, police say

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A Pembroke Pines woman is facing drunken driving and child neglect charges after police said an officer spotted her 5-year-old daughter hanging out her vehicle’s window as she drove on a major road on Sunday evening.

Authorities said a Pembroke Pines police officer was waiting at a red light at Sheridan Street and Flamingo Road just after 10:30 p.m. when he spotted the young girl “standing on the rear set exposing her upper body outside the right rear window” of a Lexus driven by her mother, Isabella Fernanda Saenz.

Police said Saenz, 26, crossed over a solid white line as the light turned green ― and her daughter was still hanging out of the window…

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