{"id":213776,"date":"2025-09-09T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213776\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:02:13","slug":"jacksonville-mother-arrested-in-riviera-beach-accused-of-leaving-3-kids-inside-semi-at-truck-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213776\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville mother arrested in Riviera Beach, accused of leaving 3 kids inside semi at truck stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A Jacksonville mother was arrested after she was accused of leaving her children unattended in a running semitruck for hours, according to the Riviera Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police were called to a truck stop to respond to reports about a semitruck that was parked at a gas pump for three hours.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, a 16-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and a 20-month-old girl were sitting inside the running truck that was parked.<\/p>\n

The teen told police that he couldn\u2019t move the truck before stepping outside with his 5-year-old sister. They told officers that the 20-month-old was still inside the truck.<\/p>\n

When the officer went to get the child out of the truck, they also saw an unsecured handgun on the floorboard between the driver\u2019s and passenger\u2019s seats.<\/p>\n

RBPD tracked down the mother, 36-year-old TorQuita Griffin, and a 26-year-old man, whom police called a couple.<\/p>\n

Griffin said the gun was hers and told police that the two had left to get food and were only gone for about an hour.<\/p>\n

She was charged with three counts of child abuse, unsafe storage of a firearm, and two counts of child neglect.<\/p>\n

The truck stop cited the man for trespassing. <\/p>\n

The Department of Children and Families is investigating.<\/p>\n

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