Man arrested for child neglect after leaving girl in a haunted house

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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) – An Indiana man is accused of child neglect after deputies said he left a young girl by herself at a haunted house on Florida’s Space Coast. 

Deputies said Charles Jones didn’t bother to go back to pick her up. He was arrested Thursday, Halloween night, after turning himself in at a Brevard County Sheriff’s Office precinct. 

WFTV in Orlando reports the girl is the 5-year-old daughter of Jones, but an arrest report had the girl’s age and relationship to Jones redacted.

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Article URL: https://www.nbc-2.com/story/41263455/florida-man-arrested-for-child-neglect-after-leaving-girl-in-a-haunted-house