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Saturday, October 22, 2011

 

Mom leaves boy in car to play at strip-mall casino

Mom left boy in car to play at strip-mall casino, cops say

Elizabeth Tato, 46, left her 11-year-old son in her car, then called police when it was repossessed, police say.

 

Elizabeth Tato

Elizabeth Tato, 46, was arrested on a charge of neglect of a child without great harm. (Orange County Jail / October 21, 2011)

 

 
Jeff Weiner
Orlando Sentinel

6:14 p.m. EDT, October 21, 2011

 

A Sanford mother was arrested on Thursday, police said, accused gambling in an Internet café while her child waited in the car — which was later towed with the boy inside.

Edgewood police say the incident began when 46-year-old Elizabeth Tato drove with her son to a Family Dollar on South Orange Avenue on Thursday afternoon.

Tato told police she noticed The Winner's Circle, a so-called strip-mall casino, was nearby and asked her son, age 11, if he wanted to come in with her, but he elected to stay in the car.

She told police she was only inside for 15 to 20 minutes, but a security officer at The Winner's Circle said she played games for about an hour, before noticing her car was gone.

Tato reported the car stolen, but it had actually been repossessed, an arrest report states. Unaware that there was a child inside, police say a tow driver removed it from the lot.

When the tow truck driver noticed the child, police say he moved the boy to the truck's cab. He then drove to a RaceTrac gas station, and left the child with its manager.

The boy told police he fell asleep in the car when his mother left, and awoke to find it was being towed. He said he wasn't hurt, police said, and appeared to be fine physically.

Tato was arrested on a charge of neglect of a child without great harm. The boy was turned over into his father's custody, the arrest report states.


Comments:
very sad
we did that once at foxwoods.the security left a note they had taken our pet and could pick it up at a local kennel for a price.
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