{"id":186859,"date":"2026-03-11T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186859\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:06:13","slug":"drunk-mom-allegedly-left-crying-child-at-bar-to-go-to-universal-resort-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186859\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk mom allegedly left crying child at bar to go to Universal resort nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drunk Florida mom was arrested after allegedly flipping off and ditching her crying kid at a bar to go dancing at a nightclub in Universal Orlando Resort\u2019s entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Thorpe, 33, of Lake Mary, was cuffed after cops found her 12-year-old daughter by herself at the CW Shoreline Bar on Saturday night, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.85644531;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38738908\" width=\"505\" height=\"590\" data-id=\"38738908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/drunk-mom-amanda-laurel-thorpe-123261291.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Amanda Laurel Thorpe.\" class=\"wp-image-38738908\"  \/>Amanda Thorpe was arrested after ditching her crying kid at a bar to go to a nightclub at the Universal Orlando Resort entertainment district known as CityWalk.  Orange County Jail<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they discovered the tween \u201cvisibly upset, crying, and sitting alone on a bar stool by the bar,\u201d the affidavit said. <\/p>\n<p>The young girl told Orange County deputies that her mother took her to the bar, which is alongside Universal\u2019s\u00a0CityWalk lagoon, but left her there after getting angry and cursing the 12-year-old out, documents alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Thorpe stormed out of the bar after becoming upset by something a patron said, and the child\u2019s desire to go back to the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unidentified patron of the bar stated something that upset Amanda. Amanda then stated that she wanted to go to the Red Coconut Club, to which [REDACTED] responded that she wanted to go back to the hotel room because she was tired,\u201d read the affidavit, which redacted her daughter\u2019s name. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cAmanda got livid with [REDACTED], displayed the middle finger, said, \u2018(Expletive) you,\u2019 and left the CW Shoreline Bar without [REDACTED],\u201d the documents continued. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38738913\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/universal-studios-three-dimensional-logo-123261244.jpg\" alt=\"The Universal Studios three-dimensional logo in Orlando, Florida, USA.\" class=\"wp-image-38738913\"  \/>Thorpe was arrested and charged with third-degree neglect of a child.  TOimages \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>Police then tracked the mom to the nearby Red Coconut Club, where she was spotted on the dance floor by herself and holding an alcoholic beverage.<\/p>\n<p>The dazed mother told investigators that she thought the girl had been with her the whole time, the affidavit claimed.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed that Amanda had red, bloodshot eyes, uncontrollable swaying of the body, unbalance while walking, and the scent of fruity purities coming from her breath,\u201d a deputy wrote, noting she appeared drunk. <\/p>\n<p>Thorpe, who was wearing party beads in her mug shot, was taken into custody and faces a third-degree child neglect charge, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded not guilty at an initial court hearing and was ordered held on $2,500 bond, records show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drunk Florida mom was arrested after allegedly flipping off and ditching her crying kid at a bar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1955,4864,44639,28,30,29,3437,4278],"class_list":["post-186859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alcohol","tag-arrests","tag-child-endangerment","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-universal-studios","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}