Police released the 911 call and body camera footage of the incident.
Edgewater Police Departmentbar before the mother of the child and her boyfriend were arrested for child neglect, according to newly released audio.
The Edgewater Police Department released the audio of the 911 call along with the body camera footage Monday of what they had called a "disgusting" incident.The child's mother, 35-year-old Kristina Vitucci, and her boyfriend, 39-year-old Joshua Harris, were both arrested after Vitucci's 2-year-old daughter was left in an unlocked vehicle while they sat inside an Edgewater bar drinking for nearly two hours on Jan. 28, according to police.
"I don't know that there's an actual emergency, but there's a baby out here in a car by itself," the 911 caller can be heard telling the dispatcher."Yeah, I agree," the dispatcher said.An officer responded at approximately 8:15 p.m. and reported that the child had been crying in the vehicle and it was unknown where her parent was, according to the body camera footage.
Upon arriving at the vehicle a few minutes later, Harris told officers that he owned the car and that the child's mother was inside the bar, the body camera footage shows. A still from body camera footage released by the Edgewater Police Department shows Kristina Vitucci talking to police in Edgewater, Florida, Jan. 28, 2025.When Vitucci subsequently came outside of the bar to the parking lot, an officer told her, "You've got an idea of why we're here," the footage shows.A still from body camera footage released by the Edgewater Police Department shows Joshua Harris talking to police in Edgewater, Florida, Jan. 28, 2025.
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