A woman identified as Morgan Taylor Jones, 32, was arrested in Miami after abandoning one of her children at a bus stop.
The mother, who had arrived in Florida with her two children last Wednesday, faces two charges of child neglect for leaving the 12-year-old boy at a bus stop in Hialeah and keeping him along with another toddler in poor hygienic conditions, as reported by Local 10.
According to an arrest report, on Thursday the child argued with the woman at the bus stop to demand that he wanted to return to his grandmother in Missouri.
He checked his phone and saw that it would take 20 days to walk to that state to meet up with his grandmother, so he walked away from the bus stop in front of Wendy's at 1730 W. 49th St., near Westland Mall.
Authorities detained Morgan Taylor Jones, 32, early Thursday morning and stated that she allowed the child to stay alone in an unknown neighborhood.
The police reported that Jones shouted the child's name as he walked away, but never followed him.
The child called his grandmother around 9:00 p.m. to tell her what he was doing, but she asked him to look for his mom. However, when the child arrived at the bus stop, Jones was no longer there.
The boy said he couldn't call his mother because her phone was out of battery and his was about to die. However, they allowed him to charge it at Wendy's and he was able to give his location to his grandmother, who notified the Hialeah police to rescue him.
When speaking with the police, the victim said that he and his younger brother had not showered in over a week and that he did not know where he was going to sleep that night.
"Both victims had dirty clothes, their skin was covered in dirt, and they emitted a bad body odor due to lack of hygiene," the report states.
Until last Friday, Jones was detained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond of $2,000.
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