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.
Thirty-two years old, and she acts like a middle-schooler.
Old Rule of Thumb: You can tell the age that drunks/dopers started drinking/using dope by the maturity level they demonstrate. Thus, Florida mom has been a drunk for about two decades.
Hopefully the children's father is stable so he is able to take custody.
Yeah, you need to lose custody of your kids over things like this. You are no longer responsible.
More here...
Is this woman a citizen?
If she’s not a citizen, are authorities certain those kids are hers...?
Here is your serious discussion.
No.
Letting the state decide who may or may not have children has never once, through out history, ended well.
If you think that you are smart enough to do it "right" this time I would suggest that you seek the help of a competent therapist because you are having delusions.
And the two Oliver Wendell Holmes JR. (to not mix that pustule on the backside of humanity with his father who actually was a great man) had sterilized were not imbeciles in any way.
But that is certainly ok, in our quest to play god with the human race mistakes will happen.
But the thoughts should be kept fleeting because down that path there is nothing good.
Sounds like the dad is stepping up and that is good.
oh I don’t care. I don’t think the mentally infirm should reproduce.
Not everyone’s DNA needs to march on.
Seig HEIL!!!!!
You, on the other hand ... I'm just curious how many untermenschen you'd like to eliminate.
oh eyeroll. I don’t care, like I said before. you have your views and I have mine.
When teenage girls do that, it means they're wrong ... and they know they're wrong ... and they haven't the guts or personal integrity to admit it.
I’m not wrong for having a different view than you do.
You think one way and I do not agree. Not arguing.
What was she doing? Turning tricks?
Some views are of such a repulsive and historically dangerous nature that they cannot be simply ignored or accepted. Your view, called “eugenics”, is the ideology of genocide. You may not be personally in agreement with mass murder ... yet ... and I don’t think you are ... but that’s the road you’re on.
A wise person who was tempted to think of eugenics as a good idea would do well to carefully research the history of eugenic policies put into practice.
Have a wise day.
Define mentally infirm.
Not everyone’s DNA needs to march on.
Explain who you would sterilize because of their DNA and defend your choices.
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