HIALEAH, Fla. (WKRC) \u2014 A Florida mother is accused of chaining her 13-year-old daughter to a fence outside a home in Hialeah before leaving the child in the summer heat without food or water, according to police.<\/p>\n
Yashira Marie Maldonado, 34, was arrested in connection with the July 11 incident and has since been released on bond.<\/p>\n
Yashira Marie Maldonado is accused of chaining her 13-year-old daughter to a fence outside a Hialeah home before leaving her in the sun without food or water, according to police. (WFOR\/CBS Newspath)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, officers said Maldonado drove her daughter to a home on West 63rd Street shortly before 10 a.m. She allegedly wrapped a metal chain around the girl’s waist, secured the other end to a fence and left the child outside with a clear backpack, clothing and medication.<\/p>\n
Police said the girl had no shelter from the sun and was left without food or water before Maldonado drove away.<\/p>\n
Investigators said a witness, identified in the arrest report as the girl’s great-grandmother, told police she received a text message from Maldonado at about 9:10 a.m. that read, “I got fired from my job.”<\/p>\n
Ring doorbell video from a neighboring home reportedly captured Maldonado arriving at the residence before the child was allegedly chained to the fence.<\/p>\n
A neighbor who asked not to be identified told WFOR the incident was “very disturbing.”<\/p>\n
“That’s very disturbing. It’s sad. I don’t know what happened in there, but yeah, it’s sad,” the neighbor told WFOR.<\/p>\n
Another neighbor, Armando Calzadilla, whose name was not independently confirmed, told WFOR the allegations were unacceptable.<\/p>\n
“That is unacceptable, and it deserves to be punished,” Calzadilla told WFOR.<\/p>\n
Police said Maldonado and her daughter live at an apartment complex on West 28th Street. A neighbor there, Arlene Gomez, identified Maldonado as a resident of the complex.<\/p>\n
“I’m just dumbfounded about what happened because I never thought that woman would do such a thing,” Gomez told WFOR.<\/p>\n
The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. (WKRC) \u2014 A Florida mother is accused of chaining her 13-year-old daughter to a fence outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-340343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340343","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=340343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}