{"id":415021,"date":"2026-09-30T20:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415021\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:40:43","slug":"florida-mother-leaves-4-children-home-alone-while-on-carnival-cruise-to-bahamas-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415021\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mother leaves 4 children home alone while on Carnival cruise to Bahamas: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida mother<\/a> of four came home to handcuffs after police said she left her children, including a 2-month-old baby, home alone while taking a three-day Carnival cruise to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

Nathalie Belizaire, 29, faces four counts of child neglect after law enforcement said her children were found without adult supervision inside their North Miami Beach apartment on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

According to an arrest report, the father of Belizaire\u2019s 2-month-old child saw what appeared to be a Carnival Cruise Line ticket on Belizaire\u2019s social media days earlier. When he spoke with Belizaire, she told him she planned to leave the children with their great-grandmother while she was away.<\/p>\n

The father later went to the apartment, saw the television on through the blinds and heard the children talking inside, the report states. He called 911.<\/p>\n

North Miami Beach police <\/a>and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue<\/a> responded. Firefighters forced their way into the apartment over concerns for the children\u2019s welfare and found all four hiding together in a bathroom, according to the report. The children included a 2-month-old and a 2-year-old.<\/p>\n

See also: From oranges to alligators, Florida\u2019s new driver license is a mini state showcase<\/a><\/p>\n

Investigators contacted the children\u2019s great-grandmother, who said Belizaire had told her she would drop off the children because she was going out of town. However, the great-grandmother said Belizaire never brought them to her home. Belizaire\u2019s brother told law enforcement he also received a text message asking him to check on the children.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Sept. 28, North Miami Beach police and a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office detective went to the Port of Miami, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection took Belizaire into custody after she disembarked from the Carnival Conquest<\/a>. She was then turned over to North Miami Beach police.<\/p>\n

Belizaire declined to give a statement and invoked her right to remain silent, the report states. She was being held on a $10,000 bond. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Belizaire\u2019s public defender filed a written plea of not guilty in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida mother of four came home to handcuffs after police said she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-415021","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\/415021","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=415021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}