The discovery of a three year old child asleep on a concrete sidewalk around one in the morning led to three counts of child neglect without great bodily harm for a Fort Walton Beach area woman.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was called to Gibson Street around one a.m. Saturday after a security officer found a three year old wrapped in a blanket asleep on a sidewalk.
Subsequent investigation led to the discovery of two more young children asleep alone in an apartment at the complex.
25-year old Shyla Heidelberg was arrested for child neglect after she returned to the apartment and admitted she had gone out to a nightclub about 90 minutes earlier, leaving the children unattended.
Navarre Newspaper reminds our readers that Shyla Heidelberg is presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law.
