A Florida mom was arrested on Saturday after she allegedly left her 12-year-old daughter at a Universal CityWalk bar to go dancing at another bar.
An affidavit says that Orange County deputies were called to the Shoreline Bar Saturday night at about 10:30 after a bar patron saw Amanda Thorpe flip off her daughter, tell her “F*** you,” and storm out. The patron told a bartender what they’d seen, and the bartender contacted Universal security, who called the sheriff’s office.
Deputies found the 12-year-old girl “visibly upset, crying, and sitting alone on a bar stool by the bar.” The girl told deputies that her mother was drunk and that another patron “stated something that upset” her. Thorpe then told her daughter she wanted to go to the Red Coconut Club, but the girl said she was tired and wanted to go back to their hotel
At that point, Thorpe “got livid with [redacted], displayed the middle finger, said, ‘F*** you,’ and left the CW Shoreline Bar without” her daughter.
Universal Security found Thorpe at the Red Coconut Club, and deputies headed to that bar to speak with her. Security pointed her out on the dance floor, dancing alone with a drink in her hand.
She told deputies that she had no idea her daughter was at the Shoreline Bar alone and thought she was with her the entire time. She later changed that story and said she thought she was at their hotel.
“Additionally, Amanda spontaneously uttered that she was confused about why she would possibly go to jail, as she had done this before,” the affidavit says.
Further, the deputy noted, she “had red, bloodshot eyes, uncontrollable swaying of the body, unbalance while walking, and the scent of fruity purities coming from her breath, which, based on my training, knowledge, and experience as a law enforcement officer, are indications of impairment from an alcoholic beverage.”
Thorpe was booked into the Orange County jail on a charge of child neglect.
WESH said the girl’s grandfather was notified of what happened and picked her up. Deputies also notified the state Department of Children and Familes.
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[Featured image: Amanda Thorpe/Orange County Sheriff’s Office]