A Florida woman who allegedly left a child she was babysitting to go to her boyfriend’s house faces charges after the child reportedly ingested drugs while she was gone.
Maribel Plaza, 29, is out on bond after being booked into the Lake County Jail on a charge of child neglect. According to an arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, officers from the Leesburg Police Department responded to a call from the medical staff at UF Health Hospital in Leesburg, Florida, around 1:30 a.m. on June 19 about a child who was brought to the hospital by a neighbor.
The neighbor told police that the child knocked on their door around 1 a.m. “begging” to be taken to the hospital after falling off a bed. Police said the neighbor told them that there was no adult at the home with the child…