SOUTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Miami mother faced a judge days after, police said, her 5-year-old daughter was found wandering a Family Store unattended on two separate occasions.
Jasmine Shalese Greer stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer, Thursday morning. The 37-year-old is facing two counts of child neglect.
According to South Miami Police, officers responded to the Family Dollar along the 5900 block of Southwest 64th Street after the the girl was found wandering without an adult, at around 1 p.m. on Friday.
Investigators said the child, who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, was wearing a soiled diaper.and unable to communicate with officers.
Police said the girl did have a cellphone, and it rang while they were helping her.
Officers determined that the caller was the child’s mother, who told them she was attempting to locate her daughter.
When Greer arrived to the store, she told officers that she’d been cleaning her apartment when she realized her daughter was missing. Then, she told officers, she had gone to the apartment complex leasing office to review surveillance footage in an attempt to determine where her child has gone.
Police said four days later, on Tuesday afternoon, essentially the same thing happened again. Officers received a report from a concerned citizen about the same child being found unattended at the same Family Dollar.
The child, once again wearing a soiled diaper, was captured in surveillance video walking in the store’s parking lot on her own.
Officers found Greer in the computer room of her apartment complex and took her into custody.
Greer is being held on $20,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade.
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