Mother charged after four children found alone during cruise

Nathalie Belizaire was arrested after returning from a three-day Bahamas cruise and charged with four counts of child neglect, following allegations that she left her four children unsupervised at home, according to police and court records. Her attorney denied the allegations, and the case remained unresolved in the supplied court reporting. The arrest affidavit says the children included a two-month-old infant and a two-year-old. It recounts that the infant’s father called 911 after going to Belizaire’s North Miami Beach home on Saturday and hearing children inside. Officers who entered found all four children without adult supervision and hiding together in a bathroom, the affidavit says. The father told police he had spoken with Belizaire on September 24, when she said she would take the children to their great-grandmother because she was going out of town. The great-grandmother later told investigators that Belizaire had not brought the children to her, according to the affidavit. Police also reported that Belizaire’s brother said she texted him on Saturday evening asking him to check on the children.