Mom left her 6-year-old at the park by himself after she bumped into a friend and went to get food: Police

A mom visiting a Florida park with her 6-year-old son got in trouble with the law after police said she left the boy alone.

Elena Sexton, 41, a Texas native, is out on bond after being arrested for child neglect on Saturday. According to an arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, police responded to Town Center Park in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, around 9 p.m. on Saturday after receiving a call about a young boy with no parent or guardian in sight. The man who called 911 told police that the 6-year-old boy approached him “and said he was alone” and “scared” because his mother, later identified as Sexton, “left him.”

When Sexton came back to the park, she was taken into custody by police…

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