{"id":374299,"date":"2026-08-18T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374299\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:50:09","slug":"miami-mom-arrested-after-6-year-old-found-alone-at-playground-in-sunny-isles-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374299\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami mom arrested after 6-year-old found alone at playground in Sunny Isles Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Miami-area mother is facing child neglect charges after police say she left her six-year-old son alone at a Sunny Isles Beach playground.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say 41-year-old Elena Sexton left her son alone for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/elenasexton.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"elenasexton.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Miami-Dade Correction<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police they spotted the boy by himself and told them that he said he was scared and hadn&#8217;t eaten anything since breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report states the boy told the witness that his mom left him there to get food with a friend, that he was scared and didn&#8217;t want to leave with a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they spotted Sexton walking back to the park, and that&#8217;s when she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton is charged with child neglect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami-area mother is facing child neglect charges after police say she left her six-year-old son alone at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7071,265,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-374299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-children","tag-crime","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374299","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=374299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}