Posted on 02/24/2026 9:50:12 AM PST by simpson96
SUNRISE, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was arrested in Broward County, Florida, after allegedly leaving her two young kids with an Uber driver for hours, according to authorities.
An arrest report said that the Uber driver picked up 32-year-old Emily Sabogal and her two young children, ages 3 and 4 years old.
The Uber driver told police that Sabogal had a cup of what he believed to be liquor. At one point during the ride, the Uber driver said that Sabogal grabbed his phone and canceled the ride. She then gave him $10 and asked him to stop the vehicle.
According to the report, Sabogal told the driver she’d be back in three minutes before exiting the vehicle and walking away. When she had still not returned an hour later, the driver called her.
Sabogal told him she would be back in 12 minutes and then promptly hung up.
The driver reached out to the police after he tried to reach her once more and was unsuccessful.
Body cam video shows the officers arriving at the scene to find the visibly distraught Uber driver parked on the side of the road with the two children inside his vehicle.
The video shows the driver explaining to the officers the situation, stating that he suspected Sabogal was drunk before pulling out a cup she had left behind and asking the officer to smell it.
The officer called for backup, relaying what the driver had told him.
“No clue where she is right now, just left the kids — obviously she doesn’t know this gentleman, he’s just an Uber driver — and walked off,” the officer said.
Additional body camera video shows officers locating Sabogal at a shopping plaza near a McDonald’s located about 2.2 miles from where she abruptly exited the Uber.
The officer is seen on the video approached Sabogal and asking her, “do you have two kids? Were you just in an Uber with your two kids?”
He then sternly tells her to sit down to which Sabogal responds, “Okay, but why are you treating me like that?”
“Because you just left your kids with an Uber, and we’re all over town looking for you.”
Sabogal again responds by telling the officer her phone died.
During the encounter, the officer asks Sabogal multiple times why she left the Uber, which she seemed unable to explain.
“I have not done anything wrong,” Sabogal said. “I have no idea what is going on. I’m sorry, I get what you, I get your job. I get your whole persona. I get it.”
“I’m just a mom,” she added later on.
Officers with the Sunrise Police Department arrested Sabogal on charges stemming from child neglect without great bodily harm and desertion of a child.
An investigation revealed Sabogal had been at a restaurant earlier with her children, where she had consumed multiple drinks at the bar, the report said.
The report also noted that Restaurant staff told investigators that Sabogal is a regular and frequents the establishment five days a week.
yes, let’s. Not a popular view on this forum but I am all for it.
“Alcohol” by Brad Paisley
I can make anybody pretty
I can make you believe any lie
I can make you pick a fight with somebody twice your size
Well, I’ve been known to cause a few break-ups
An’ I’ve been known to cause a few births
Well, I can make you new friends, or get you fired from work
And since the day I left Milwaukee
Lynchburg an’ Bordeaux, France
Been making the bars lots of big money
An’ helpin’ white people dance
I got you in trouble in High School
But College, now that was a ball
You had some of the best times you’ll never remember with me
Alcohol, alcohol
I got blamed at your wedding reception
For your best man’s embarrassing speech
And also for those naked pictures of you at the beach
I’ve influenced Kings and world leaders
I helped Hemingway write like he did
And I’ll bet you a drink or two, that I can make you put that lampshade on your head
‘Cause since the day I left Milwaukee
Lynchburg and Bordeaux, France
I been making a fool out of folks just like you
An’ helping white people dance
I am medicine and I am poison
I can help you up or make you fall
You had some of the best times you’ll never remember with me
Alcohol, alcohol
Yeah, since the day I left Milwaukee
Lynchburg an’ Bordeaux, France
Been making the bars lots of big money (helpin’ white people dance)
Yeah, I got you in trouble in High School
But College, now that was a ball
You had some of the best times you’ll never remember with me
Alcohol, alcohol
RE: “I’m just a mom.”
And a darned good one, too. /SARC
Tough lesson for the kids to learn but they need to understand that their mother is a drunk.
That’s what I’m wondering too.
Same here.
Florida woman!
Wonder where she gets her money.
She's no mom. Welfare recipient living off taxpayer money, maybe. But she's not a mom.
As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes opined in the 1927 case Buck vs Bell, which decided that enforced sterilization was constitutional- “Three generations of imbeciles are enough”
Interestingly, this case has never been overturned.
In many parts of this country Father’s Day is a very confusing holiday!
If the ride is cancelled, the driver can no longer call the passenger.
She grabbed the phone off an Uber driver? And then navigate to the cancel? I’m not buying all of this. I do however know that there are MANY Uber passengers that behave like this.
That is such a classic body cam video scenario.
They don’t get what they did wrong and are too hammered to even understand it.
Some people provide a real convincing case for it.
Thumbs up to the Uber driver, but not sure he had to wait an hour before contacting authorities
Very guilty.
“The dads couldn’t be reached for comment.”
Nobody knows who they are.
She should compensate the uber driver for his time and trouble.
Nobody looks good in a booking photo ... but those eyes look dead. There’s a whole lot going wrong here; leaving the kids with the Uber driver is just scratching the surface.
Kudos to the police for handling the situation without killing anybody.
You're not the only one. A whole lot of folks can think of categories of people who should be sterilized. Some of those folks would happily put YOU in a "should be sterilized" category.
Nor should it be ... it was very "popular" in Germany ... in the 1930s and first half of the 1940s.
And they got the idea from the likes of Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes.
That's some interesting company you're keeping, there.
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