ORLANDO, Fla. _ A woman arrested after a toddler was found in her sweltering car Monday afternoon told the Orlando Sentinel she left the child while she went inside a Walt Disney World resort, where she works as a housekeeper, to try to get her manager's approval to take the afternoon off to care for the girl.
Myriam Lubincadet, 37, said she agreed to baby-sit the 2-year-old girl while the child's mother was in labor. Lubincadet said she picked up the child and left her about 12:15 p.m. in the car in the employee parking lot of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. The temperature in the child safety seat in which the girl was found was 113.5 degrees by the time another employee found the child "crying and sweating profusely" about 1:05 p.m., according to an arrest affidavit.
"I love her," said Lubincadet, who said on Tuesday she is a cousin to the child's father. She said she spoke to the father and "everything is OK."
Lubincadet, of Orlando, said she only meant to leave the child for about five minutes while she talked to her manager. When she found her manager, she said he told her he had been told about the girl left alone in the car and said he thought she was in trouble.
Another employee in the parking lot heard crying and looked for the child, according to an Orange County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit. The girl was found in the locked car and the windows were rolled down partially. The girl's temperature was 97.1 degrees, according to the affidavit.
The child was taken to Florida Hospital Celebration Health where she was in stable condition, deputies said.
Lubincadet told deputies the girl was in the car about 30-45 minutes, according to the affidavit. Lubincadet was arrested on suspicion of child neglect and was taken to the Orange County Jail. Bond was set at $1,000, which she posted Tuesday.
