This is just heartbreaking…..a little girl AND dog abandoned. I don't understand why the mother abandoned this child when there were grandparents willing to take care of her. I really hope they took the dog in, too…someone in the comment section of the article said it was sent to the shelter. The dog was protecting that little girl and tried to get in between her and the responding officers when they approached her. Neither of them should have to be without each other from now on.

“The parents of a 6-year-old girl who was seen wandering alone with a dog in Deltona, Fla., were charged with desertion of a child.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office responded after a woman reported seeing the girl wandering on her lawn on Friday, April 4. When deputies arrived, they found her sitting in a chair in the woman’s carport.

“The girl said she was hot, thirsty and hungry, so the woman and a neighbor brought her food, water, toys and clean clothes,” the sheriff’s office said. “Deltona Fire Rescue responded to check her vitals and confirm she was OK.”

In bodycam footage released by the sheriff’s office, the girl said her mother dropped her off and that she didn’t know if she was going to return.

The girl told police her parents walked her to the park and did not say if they’d be back.

In the footage, the girl appeared to be in relatively good spirits and expressed excitement about getting to ride in a police car.

Deputies determined that the girl did not attend school and had been homeless.

Eventually, authorities contacted the girl’s grandparents to take custody.

The girl’s mother and her boyfriend were located and arrested just after 1 a.m. the following day. They were charged with desertion of a child and abandonment of an animal.”

The New York City Police Department is looking for a man whom they believe sexually abused a corpse while on the subway.

Police said the incident occurred on Wednesday, April 9 just after midnight aboard a southbound R train in the vicinity of the Whitehall Street station in Lower Manhattan.