The Brief
- An Orange County babysitter was arrested and charged with third-degree felony child neglect after a non-verbal, autistic child was left unattended in the Oak Ridge community, deputies say.
- Deputies responded to the scene early Saturday morning to find the distressed child wandering entirely alone near an active roadway.
- While the child’s exact age and the caregiver’s location during the incident have not been released, the suspect was booked into the Orange County jail without further incident.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida babysitter is accused of leaving a child unattended, which led to the child wandering close to an active roadway, deputies say.
Authorities claim the babysitter – identified as Lakyah Carter, 20 – willfully neglected the child.
What we know:
On May 25th at approximately 1:54 a.m., a 20-year-old babysitter was arrested for leaving a non-verbal autistic child unsupervised in Oak Ridge, FL.…