LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman is being charged with child neglect after deputies say she left her three young children home alone while she took a trip to California.
A Seminole County Sheriff’s Office report says 29-year-old Naiele Santa Ana Olivas was arrested Thursday.
Deputies say the mother didn’t make arrangements for someone took look after her children - ages 11, 9 and 8 - and put the 11-year-old in charge. Deputies say Olivas left on her trip last month and had planned to be gone more than a week.
Authorities were notified after one of the children called a relative. The children were unharmed and are staying with relatives.
Olivas was in the Seminole County Jail on Friday and couldn’t be reached for comment. She was being held on $15,000 bail.
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