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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Parents Abandon 6-year-old Girl and Her Dog | Crime Alert 04.17.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A 6-year-old girl found with her dog in the late afternoon says mommy and daddy left her. Traffic disrupted in San Diego for almost 24 hours by world-record attemptee?

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. A woman tells Volusia County, Florida

0:05.2

deputies, there's a small girl and dog wandering through her yard. Minutes later, officers find

0:11.3

the girl sitting in a chair under a stranger's carport. She says her parents dropped her off

0:15.7

and left. The girl says she's homeless, hot, thirsty, and hungry.

0:25.1

The woman and a neighbor bring her food, water, clean clothes, and toys.

0:33.5

Nancy, the six-year-old little girl tells police Mommy and Daddy left her at the park to go charge their phones early that morning, but they never came back.

0:38.5

First responders determined the girl did not suffer any injuries after spending the day outside.

0:44.2

Parents Aquana Estes and Petraz Floyd do not have a permanent address and never enrolled their daughter in school. The little girl taken into the state's custody and later turned over to

0:48.8

her grandparents. The parents located about eight hours after the concerned residence 911 call

0:53.9

and arrested.

0:54.5

Aquana Estes 27 and boyfriend Petraz Floyd 29 now charged with desertion of a child and abandonment of an animal.

1:05.0

A man scales the Claremont Drive overpass above I-5 San Diego claiming he's trying to break a world record. Police and California

1:14.1

Highway Patrol shut down northbound lanes as he lingers on the edge. After about an hour,

1:19.8

he climbs down, saying he's not suicidal or mentally ill, just attempting a record for, quote,

1:25.4

time and occurrences on a bridge. Whatever that means,

1:29.8

the freeway reopens that evening he climbs back up. Northbound lanes closed again.

1:36.3

Southbound lanes closed two hours later. Traffic stalled for miles. He backs down by midnight.

1:42.7

I-5 reopens. Sunrise. He goes back. Northbound lanes shut

1:48.4

again, 7.30 a.m. after 19 hours of disruption, officers detain him, and he's taken to the hospital

1:55.7

for evaluation. More crime and justice news after this.

2:05.8

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley.

2:13.5

Charges have been dropped against two Rhode Island men in the 23 death of a fan during a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium.

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