Georgia couple accused of kid neglect after being discovered ‘closely intoxicated,’ asleep on Daytona Seashore

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A younger couple from Georgia was arrested Saturday afternoon after Volusia County deputies say they discovered them drunk and asleep within the sand in Daytona Seashore, and their kids have been nowhere to be discovered.

An nameless caller reported the couple to 911, and it took a deputy eight makes an attempt to wake the 2 up, in accordance with an arrest affidavit.

“I went and browse the report, and I am like, ‘You bought to be kidding me,’” Sheriff Mike Chitwood mentioned.

Deputies requested the couple the place their children have been, however they did not appear to have a clue, in accordance with body-cam video obtained by FOX 35. At one level, the daddy calls out for the youngsters on the water’s edge.

“You do not know the place they’re?” the deputy requested.

Chitwood could not consider it.

“It simply boggles my thoughts that you’d drive right here and get obliterated and permit a five- and a seven-year-old to get lost,” he mentioned.

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Deputies discovered the 2 children swimming in a pool on the resort close by – unsupervised however protected.

“In case you do not need to be accountable for your kids, and that is what you need to do, then discover somebody to look at them and are available on trip with out them,” Thomasa Bond, who’s staying close by, mentioned after studying in regards to the arrest.

Deputies arrested each dad and mom, Alyssia Langley, 27, and her fiancé, Timothy Stephens, 27. Earlier than Stephens was taken to jail, he needed to be handled on the hospital after trying to flee from deputies, face-planting on the bottom, and knocking himself out.

“Once we surprise what we see, why children are the best way they’re, you gotta take a step again and take a look at who’s in cost. And clearly, these two clowns should not be in control of … they cannot be in control of themselves, not to mention a five-year-old or a seven-year-old,” Chitwood mentioned.

Each Langley and Stephens have been charged with baby neglect, a third-degree felony.