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Deputies: Florida Mom Left Kids Home Alone, Went to California

A Florida woman is being charged with child neglect after deputies say she left her three young children home alone while she took a trip to California.

A Seminole County Sheriff's Office report says 29-year-old Naiele Santa Ana Olivas was arrested Thursday.

Deputies say the mother didn't make arrangements for someone took look after her children _ ages 11, 9 and 8 _ and put the 11-year-old in charge. Deputies say Olivas left on her trip last month and had planned to be gone more than a week.

Authorities were notified after one of the children called a relative. The children were unharmed and are staying with relatives.

Olivas was in the Seminole County Jail on Friday and couldn't be reached for comment. She was being held on $15,000 bail.

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