'The child fell into the roadway': Tow truck driver hauls away Honda with 4-year-old inside, father chases after him and watches his kid tumble out after opening door, cops say

A Florida tow motortruck operator is facing a transgression complaint for allegedly hauling distant a car that helium claims was "illegally parked" with a 4-year-old girl inside. Surveillance video shows the child's begetter chasing aft the operator and yelling that his girl is wrong earlier she opened a door and "fell into the roadway," cops say.

"The tow motortruck operator initiated the tow and drove distant without exiting the conveyance oregon checking the towed conveyance for occupants, contempt [the father] moving toward the truck, yelling, and banging connected the driver's model stating that a kid was inside," an apprehension study obtained by Law&Crime states astir Sergio Jesus Suarez, who is charged with child neglect.

The girl's begetter told constabulary helium was successful the Bistro Creole edifice successful Sunrise for "approximately" 2 minutes erstwhile helium saw his Honda Accord being towed by Suarez, who claims his "spotter" ne'er mentioned a kid being inside, per the report.

"[The father] explained that the tow motortruck had already lifted his conveyance erstwhile helium reached it," constabulary allege. "He ran to the driver's broadside window, banged connected the window, and yelled aggregate times that his girl was wrong the vehicle. Despite this, the tow motortruck operator accelerated and near the parking batch with the kid inactive wrong the vehicle."

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The dada allegedly chased Suarez and the tow motortruck done a plaza and onto West Oakland Park Boulevard portion continuing to outcry astatine him. He told police that helium past observed his girl "fall retired of the conveyance onto the roadway," according to the report. The miss was hospitalized with injuries to some of her arms and her close calf.

"[The father] instantly ran into traffic, picked up his girl … and moved her to safety," the study says, citing statements made by a witnesser that allegedly corroborate the dad's story.

"She heard yelling and observed a tow motortruck pulling a achromatic sedan portion [the father] chased the truck, yelling repeatedly," the study recounts. "She saw the rear driver-side doorway unfastened and a kid autumn retired of the vehicle. She stated the tow motortruck was traveling astatine a precocious complaint of velocity astatine the clip and continued driving eastbound aft the kid fell into the roadway."

The surveillance video, which was obtained by section Fox affiliate WSVN, allegedly shows Suarez initiating the tow and driving away without exiting the conveyance oregon checking the dad's Honda for occupants.

Police accidental that Suarez's nonaccomplishment to inspect the conveyance anterior to towing it, combined with his determination to proceed driving — contempt being alerted that a kid was wrong — created a "foreseeable and important hazard of superior bodily harm oregon death," which led to the complaint he's facing.

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"His actions constituted culpable negligence and demonstrated a reckless disregard for the information of a minor, straight resulting successful wounded to the child," the apprehension study states.

Suarez appeared astatine a enslaved proceeding Monday night, during which a Broward County justice dressed him down for his alleged behavior.

"This is 1 that stuck retired to maine this morning," Judge Corey Friedman said, according to WSVN. "He admitted that helium didn't look astatine the conveyance and I deliberation it's besides connected surveillance."

Suarez's lawyer claimed successful tribunal that helium told him helium checked the father's Honda 3 times earlier helium towed it. "There was nary kid inside," the lawyer reportedly said.

Suarez was released connected enslaved Monday and does not person his adjacent tribunal day scheduled yet.