Orange County, FL – October 21, 2011 – A Repo Man repossessed a car from a strip mall casino parking lot with an 11 year old child sleeping inside, only to abandon the car and the child and disappear with his name unknown. The mother has been arrested and with charged with child neglect.
The incident began when 46-year-old Elizabeth Tato drove with her son to a Family Dollar Store on South Orange Avenue on Thursday afternoon but then elected to go to The Winner’s Circle, a strip-mall casino that was nearby and asked her son, Christian Tato, age 11, if he wanted to come in with her, but he reportedly chose to stay in the car.
Tato told police she was only inside for 15 to 20 minutes, but a security officer at The Winner’s Circle said she played games for about an hour, before noticing her car was gone.
During that time period, a car repo man towed her car out of the parking lot with her 11-year-old son sleeping in the back seat.
Unaware that there was a child inside, police say a tow driver removed it from the lot.
When the tow truck driver noticed the child, police say he moved the boy to the truck’s cab. He then drove to a RaceTrac gas station, and left the child with its manager.
The boy told police he fell asleep in the car when his mother left, and awoke to find it being towed. He reported that he wasn’t hurt, police said, and appeared to be fine physically.
Christian’s step mother, Aida Change, is livid.
“The guy said that he did not notice that the boy was sleeping, and he took the boy with him in the car,” said Change.
Reportedly, once the Repo Man realized that the boy was in the vehicle, he let Christian call his father. However, he pulled over at a gas station where he unhooked the car and left the boy by himself. On top of that, police have no idea who repossessed the car.
“He said he was really scared,” said Change.
When she left the Winner’s Club, Tato, believing that someone had stolen her car, called 911.
Tato said she was shopping at the Family Dollar store when she noticed the Winner’s Club. She told police she was only inside for about 15 minutes, but the security guard told police he thought she was there for about an hour.
“You don’t leave your boy, no matter how old he is, in a car by himself,” said Change. “And the repo man should have checked the car before he left with the car.”
Tato was arrested on a charge of neglect of a child without great harm.
The child is reported as fine and is with his father while the Florida Department of Children and Families is investigating the case.
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I am sure without any other knowledge this was an unprofessional and unlicenensed driver. What do you think? Isn’t there cameras and what an idiot. You know that he was legit that he would want to clear his anme and any wrongdoing. The Mom was def the one responsible for leaving a child in the car but now the Repo man is as guilty or more. An ediot or was just unlicensed. Is def an easy man to trace!
We had one that there were 2 kids in a car in middle of night and per the kids the mom was inside the house entertaining a man and she made the kids go to the car. The agent saw the kids inside and made them go knock the door and go in the house and then he made a police report so the Police would be aware. We are professionals. and the correct Agent response! He also took the car (of course after all clear). You know he was not Professional or the car would have been recovered. After all the incidents in the past most pros check the car before taking it. Better safe than sorry!
‘makes sense’? You think? I’m not one to beat up on someone and I agree this screams bhph. A Real recovery agent would not leave the vehicle and the kid at a gas station and run away! He cannot be hard to find and the bhph lot should be sued and their car thief arrested!
From reading the article, I can only surmise that whom ever effected the recovery was not very experienced. He did everything right until he dropped the car. He should have contacted the police and waited for them to arrive and make a report. That is unless he was unlicensed. In that case the drop and run makes sense.
The more I think about this story……the more It screams BHPH.
She didn’t work here…..she just happened to stop and go inside. That leads me to believe they had a GPS installed in the car and would explain how the repoman found the car. How many REAL finance companies have gps units ? This is almost always BHPH or very subprime lenders who use the cheapest agency in town.
If we didn’t have agencies like this around nobody would pay our high prices for QUALITY service without lawsuits.
This has always been a fear of mine, since self-loaders became popular.
I think the repoman has a partial defense since it is a major crime to leave a child alone inside a vehicle in Fl. So….. the initial repo would be completely unexpected.
However, if he simply dropped him off at a gas station with their manager….without calling police himself to report the incident…… that is where I think he went completely wrong. Then to unhook and abandon the vehicle ? Although he did call the father to inform him of what happened and where the child was located.
I have hooked cars at 3am in the driveway of the given only to find the debtor sleeping inside the vehicle. This is becomming a common hazard o the job.
Since the repoman did, in fact repo the car and remove it rom it’s original location…… he would be required to notify police of the initial repo. I believe he will lose his license for the way he handled the problem. It would not be hard to track him down, just call the finance company.
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