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Nathalie Belizaire faces child neglect charges after police found her four minor children, including an infant, unsupervised at home while she traveled to the Bahamas for a three-day cruise.
of leaving her four minor children, including an infant, alone while she went on a weekend cruise, according to police. , is accused of four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.
According to North Miami Beach police, the father of one of Belizaire’s children, who is 2 months old, had seen on a post on her WhatsApp story on Thursday “depicting what appeared to be a cruise ticket purchase. ” That day, he spoke to Belizaire, who told him she would be dropping the children off with their great-grandmother, police said.
But when he went to her apartment Saturday night, he saw the TV on through the blinds and heard the children talking inside, which led him to call 911, an arrest report states. Miami mother Nathalie Belizaire has fronted court accused of leaving her three children alone while she went on a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
“All four minor children were discovered inside ... without adult supervision and were hiding together in the bathroom,” police said. Be the first to know:When authorities spoke to the kids’ great-grandmother, she said Belizaire had told her that “she would be dropping the children off because she was going out of town,” but never brought them over. Belizaire’s brother also told police that around 8pm on Saturday, his sister texted him, “instructing him to check on her children.
”All four children, one as young as two-months-old, were found in their great-grandmother’s home without adult supervision. An investigation revealed that Belizaire had purchased a three-day ticket to the Bahamas aboard the Carnival Conquest with a sail date of September 25.
“ left all four minor children, including a two-month-old infant and a two-year-old child, inside the residence without adult supervision while the defendant traveled out of town aboard a Carnival Conquest cruise ship,” the arrest report states. On Monday, authorities were waiting as Belizaire disembarked at PortMiami, where she was taken into custody by US Customs and Border Protection and later released to North Miami Beach police.
“Based on the totality of the circumstances and evidence obtained during the investigation, sufficient probable cause existed to establish that the defendant failed to provide the necessary care and supervision for the four minor children, thereby exposing them to a substantial risk of harm,” the arrest report reads. Belizaire was arrested after returning to PortMiami on Monday and released on bail while her children were placed in foster care.
Belizaire appeared Tuesday in bond court, where her bond was set at $10,000 and she was asked to stay away from the children.
“You cannot make this up. It says she went on a cruise and left her children home alone,” Judge Mindy Glazer said during the hearing.
“These poor kids, four of them, were home alone for three days ... I’m just grateful nothing worse happened to these kids. ”“The baby was born in July of this year. Who leaves a baby alone like that? ”
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