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Drivers see baby in truck bed, call police

A Florida baby sitter is charged with child neglect after being accused of allowing an infant to ride in a baby stroller in the bed of a pickup truck.

A Volusia County baby sitter has been charged with child neglect after being accused of allowing an infant to ride in a baby stroller in the bed of a pickup truck.

Several people called 911 after seeing the baby in the rear of the truck.

Investigators with the Daytona Beach Police Department said Keyona Davis, 23, was baby-sitting for a friend and put the baby in the stroller in the bed of the pickup truck with her while someone else drove them.

Davis faced a judge Thursday and didn't seem to understand that what she did was wrong. Terrance McClain, 8 months, was inside the stroller late Wednesday afternoon.

Stunned motorists called 911.

  • 911 operator: What is the emergency?
  • Caller: There's a truck going down Mason Avenue heading east with a baby stroller in the back of the truck with a baby in it.
  • 911 operator: Where's your emergency?
  • Caller: There's a baby back in a pickup truck while it's driving on Nova Road southbound.

One motorist stayed with the pickup as it headed south on Nova Road for several miles, finally turning onto Orange Avenue, where police picked the truck up.

"I got my first child when I was 16," Davis said during a court appearance.

Davis explained to the court she has been baby-sitting without incident since she was a teenager and didn't realize police would consider this endangering a child.

"It's not like they give you a handbook or anything on how — what's neglect and what's not neglect," Davis said.

The public defender argued that a charge of felony neglect was too harsh, saying the baby wasn't harmed, but the prosecution and judge saw the incident as very disturbing.

The charge stood, but Davis was released on her own recognizance and ordered to stay away from the child involved in the incident.

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