A healthcare company\u2019s regional president and her husband are accused of ditching their 6-month-old daughter in their tent on the beach during her nap time while the rest of the family went on a long walk along the shore Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Sara Sommers Wilks and her husband, Brian Wilks, were both arrested shortly after police responded to reports of an abandoned baby at Florida\u2019s Miramar Beach around noon Friday.<\/p>\n
Sommers Wilks, 37, and Wilks, 40, told police that they\u2019d \u201clost track of time\u201d while on a walk with their three older children, the Walton County Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sara Sommer Wilks and one of her children at a beach. Walton County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n The pair were gone for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s right there at that hour time frame, 50 minutes to an hour, way longer than what would be reasonable,\u201d Major Dustin Cosson with the Walton County Sheriff\u2019s Office told ABC 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n A good Samaritan collected the infant and was tending to her inside the nearby Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa when authorities arrived.<\/p>\n All the while, the parents had no idea what was going on and were impossible to reach as they\u2019d left their cellphones behind with the infant, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thankful for the quick-thinking beachgoer who raised the alarm and for those who stepped in to care for the child with the same kindness and concern they would show their own,\u201d Sheriff Michael Adkinson said.<\/p>\n Sommer Wilks, 37, is a regional president at US Heart and Vascular in Southeast Texas. Walton County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n Brian Wilks, 40, shares four children with his wife. Walton County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n The baby\u2019s vitals were normal and she wasn\u2019t in any apparent distress, authorities said. <\/p>\n She and her three elder siblings were remanded into the Florida Department of Children and Families\u2019 custody until other family members could pick them up, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n