Nurse's Florida DUI and Child Neglect Charges
Nurse charged with DUI, child neglect: "TAMPA - A nurse has been arrested and charged with drunk driving after deputies say she left a 15-month-old in her care alone for several hours. Hillsborough County deputies arrested Brenda Sue Singer around 1 a.m. Thursday near I-75 and Morris Bridge Road. Sheriff's investigators said Singer, 44, had been hired to look after a toddler who needs 24 hour nursing care. The child's parents left the house around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and returned to find the boy alone around 3 a.m. When Singer was pulled over deputies said she was driving with the headlights off, and her blood alcohol level was in the area of .307 to .314, nearly four times the legal limit. 'In this case she was very drunk,' sheriff's spokesperson J.D Callaway said. Singer was booked into the Orient Road jail where she was released on $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon, jail records show. She's charged with felony child neglect and DUI. When the boy's parents found their son home alone, they immediately called the nursing agency and deputies. A short time later they learned the nurse was in jail. 'They sought the help they needed totally unknowing that their child would be left alone. It could have been very very tragic but it did not turn out to be,' Callaway said."
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