Amber Warner, 31, is accused of trying to hand her two-year-old child off to strangers outside a restaurant and telling them, “I can’t do it.” Warner is then said to have gotten into a truck and left without her son.
What Happened?
According to the TC Palm, Warner passed off her young son to strangers in the parking lot of Kountry Kitchen in Vero Beach. Witnesses told police that Warner approached a couple outside the restaurant put the barefoot child on the ground and told them, “I can’t do it,” before leaving.
She was later found at her home and when authorities asked her about the incident she burst into tears and told the officers that she loved her son.
Warner is now facing a charge of unlawful desertion of a child.
She was previously released from state prison in May 2016 after serving time for dealing in stolen property and credit card fraud. She is now out of jail under a $6,000 bail, according to jail records.
Her two-year-old son was taken into protective custody and is apparently in “relatively good health.”
Amber Warner
Amber Warner is a 31-year-old mother of a two-year-old son who resides in Flordia. She is accused of abandoning her child at a Kountry Kitchen in Vero Beach where she put him on the ground in front of strangers and told them, “I can’t do it.”
Warner was released from state prison in May 2016 after serving time for dealing in stolen property and credit card fraud. She is not out of jail under a $6,000 bail.
