Deputies are investigating after a 1-year-old boy was found wandering alone in Dania Beach Monday morning.
The child was found around 10:45 a.m. in the 200 block of Southwest 2nd Terrace, Broward Sheriff's Office officials said.
Footage showed the child in the arms of a deputy outside a laundromat.
Officials said he was found safe and unharmed but was taken to a local hospital as a precaution.
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"This was a potentially very dangerous and scary situation that at the end of it, the child that was found wandering, was fortunately safe and unharmed," BSO spokesman Carey Codd said.
A while later, a woman who identified herself as the child's mother arrived at the scene, officials said. She was being questioned by detectives.
BSO contacted the Department of Children and Families and said the incident remains under investigation.
