Florida judge rips into mom accused of leaving 4 children at home to go on 3-day cruise

A Florida mother is facing four felony charges after allegedly abandoning her four young children — including a two-month-old infant — to take a three-day vacation on a cruise ship to the Bahamas.Nathalie Belizaire, 29, was charged with four counts of child neglect after she boarded Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Conquest, leaving her children unattended in her North Miami Beach residence.Police said U.S.

Customs and Border Protection officers took her into custody Monday as she disembarked."You cannot make this up," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer said in Tuesday court footage."We are just grateful nothing worse happened to those kids.MOTHER, BOYFRIEND ALLEGEDLY ABANDONED BLINDFOLDED YOUNG SONS IN REMOTE FOREST AS PART OF 'GAME': REPORTSNathalie Belizaire, 29, bows her head after using her orange jail attire to wipe away a tear during an arraignment Tuesday.

(WSVN)"Who leaves four little kids alone to go on a cruise?"The poor kids were home alone."The children were discovered by police Saturday, the day after the ship set sail.Bodycam footage showed four kids coming out of hiding in a bathroom – a 2-year-old toddler, a pre-teen and what appears to be a teenage girl holding a newborn baby.Lether Bazile, the father of the two-month-old, told police that Belizaire claimed she was leaving the children with their great-grandmother, the New York Post reported.BABYSITTER ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING TWO YOUNG SISTERS WAS PREVIOUSLY CHARGED WITH ABDUCTING NEWBORNA toddler comes to the door of a bathroom after North Miami Beach Police were called to an apartment to find four children allegedly abandoned by her mother, who left for a three-day weekend cruise to the Bahamas.

(WSVN)The father was tipped off by the mother's absence by Belizaire’s WhatsApp story two days earlier that appeared to show a Carnival Cruise Line ticket, he told police.When Bazile stopped by Belizaire's home, he saw the television glowing through the blinds and heard the children's voices ...