Man charged with DUI, neglect after police say he left child alone at business

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PALATKA, Fla. – A antheral is facing kid neglect and DUI charges aft an incidental Friday involving his stepchild, constabulary said.

According to the Palatka Police Department, Reginal Horner picked up the kid from God’s Little Creations Day Care connected Pine Street but past came backmost a abbreviated clip aboriginal and told the time attraction employees helium hadn’t taken the kid and didn’t cognize wherever the kid was.

Police said Horner was showing signs of being intoxicated, truthful the time attraction called police.

Horner told officers helium initially arrived to prime up the child, but the kid ne'er got successful the car. Surveillance video told a antithetic story, constabulary said.

A missing kid probe was launched, and it was determined Horner took the kid to a concern and near him there. Officers were capable to find the child, who was OK, and was returned safely to his mother.

Horner was arrested.

The Department of Children and Families volition besides behaviour an investigation.

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