VERO BEACH, Fla. – A Florida woman is accused of abandoning her 2-year-old son in a restaurant parking lot after she unsuccessfully tried to give him to strangers, police said.
Amber Warner, 31, approached a couple as they were leaving the Kountry Kitchen in Vero Beach and tried to get them to take her son, who she was carrying, Vero Beach police said.
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Warner told the couple, "I can't do it," and then put the boy on the ground before driving away in a black truck, police said.
Officers later found Warner at her home, where she was arrested.
Warner faces charges of unlawful desertion of a child and resisting arrest without violence.
Her 2-year-old son appeared to be in good health and was placed in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.