Marissa Bagg’s report for NBC 6 South Florida opens with a detail that’s hard to shake, because it’s the kind of detail every parent understands instinctively: two small children were left sitting in the back seat of an Uber while their mother walked away, and the person who finally called police wasn’t a relative or a neighbor – it was the rideshare driver, a stranger who suddenly realized he was the only adult in charge.
Police in Sunrise say the children are safe now, but the case has triggered a wave of blunt questions that don’t have easy answers, including how a routine ride ended with officers searching for a missing mother and a father nauseous with fear over what could have happened.
According to Bagg, the mother, 32-year-old Emily Sabogal, has now been arrested and charged, accused of abandoning her children inside the vehicle for an extended period of time while she disappeared…