Woman facing charges in Marion County after unsupervised child is found along road
The Ocala Police Department says a woman is facing child neglect charges.
On Wednesday, police responded to a call about an unsupervised child, and the caller, a postal worker delivering mail, told police they found the child outside without clothes and with a bloody nose.
The witness also reported the child being covered in sand.
Two other witnesses who were in a vehicle behind the postal service vehicle told police they noticed the unsupervised child as well.
One of the witnesses gave the child a shirt to wear as they waited for police to arrive.
Upon starting a check at the nearby residence, responding officers found two doors left open.
According to Ocala police, they knocked multiple times but received no response.
Dirty diapers were discovered in the yard in addition to a baby stroller on the front porch and a car seat in the front yard, which police to believe the child came from that home.
Two parents, Jessica Shuman and the father of her child, were asleep in bed with their child.
The parents told police that Qualinda Robinson — girlfriend of the homeowner and father of the unsupervised child, Curtis Taylor — was supposed to be watching the child.
However, she was not at the home.
Robinson claimed she had texted Shuman that she was leaving to go to the store at 10:44 a.m., but police say Robinson did not make sure the child would be supervised.
Robinson was taken into custody at the Marion County Jail.
She's facing charges of child neglect without bodily harm, according to the Ocala Police Department.