Boy, 9, injured after mum ‘left four children home alone’ to go to Vegas

Irene Miller, 50, was arrested on Friday as she returned to Orlando International Airport from a Las Vegas trip - for which police said she left her four children home alone.

A Florida mother is facing charges of child neglect after her nine-year-old son was injured when she allegedly left him home alone with his siblings to go to Las Vegas.

Irene Miller, 50, was arrested after deputies in Osceola County were called to her home on October 21, following a call from a child who said a dumbbell had fallen on her brother’s head.

Police who responded to the call found three other children, aged 14, 12 and 11, alone at the property with no adult present.

The injured boy was treated in hospital before being discharged.

Miller, who faces four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm, was tracked down by the sheriff’s office, and she told them she had gone to Vegas for work on October 18 and planned to return by October 23.

A Florida photographer?s child was allegedly hit in the head by a falling dumbbell after the mom ditched her four kids at home alone for days while on a work trip to Las Vegas, according to authorities. Irene Miller, 50, was cuffed last week after emergency responders arrived at her home in Kissimmee, Fla., for a 911 call from a child reporting that her 9-year-old brother was struck in the head by a falling dumbbell, the Osceola County Sheriff?s Office said in a news release. Deputies arrived and found four children ? aged 9, 11, 12, and 14 ? with no adult supervision. The 9-year-old was taken to a hospital, treated, and released, police added.
A Florida photographer?s child was allegedly hit in the head by a falling dumbbell after the mom ditched her four kids at home alone for days while on a work trip to Las Vegas, according to authorities. Irene Miller, 50, was cuffed last week after emergency responders arrived at her home in Kissimmee, Fla., for a 911 call from a child reporting that her 9-year-old brother was struck in the head by a falling dumbbell, the Osceola County Sheriff?s Office said in a news release. Deputies arrived and found four children ? aged 9, 11, 12, and 14 ? with no adult supervision. The 9-year-old was taken to a hospital, treated, and released, police added.

‘She told deputies that she had a babysitter coming from Tampa in the mornings to get the children ready for school and to check on them after school, but she did not require them to stay the night,’ Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page.

The children were subsequently taken to stay with their father, while authorities made plans to meet Miller when she returned to Florida.

Bodycam footage shared on Facebook shows the authorities approaching Miller as she leaves her return flight home, before taking her to a police car.

She was subsequently booked into the county jail on the four charges.

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