HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Police body-cam video shows Pamela Monslave telling police officers that she asked a three-year-old boy who was outside naked in Hallandale Beach if he wanted to play.
Two alert neighbors reported they saw Monslave, 39, of Miami, approach the fence and reach over to pick up the boy, who was not naked, from his house’s front yard.
A witness video captured them shouting, “STOP!”
One of the neighbors notified the boy’s mother that Monslave had kidnapped him. Another neighbor ran after Monslave, so she dropped the boy, who quickly ran to his mother’s arms.
“Both witnesses positively identified the defendant as the person they observed taking the child,” Officer Carmine Tufano wrote in the arrest report describing the nightmare.
Monslave ran away, but it didn’t take long for police officers to find her and arrest her on Nov. 25. On Thursday, the boy’s mother, who did not want to be identified, said she was heartbroken when she learned of her son’s kidnapping.
“Who believes that their own kid can’t be safe in their own yard,” the mother said.
Broward County inmate records show Broward Sheriff’s Office correctional deputies booked Monslave on Nov. 25 and a Broward County judge denied her bond.
County court records show prosecutors filed a first-degree felony case against Monslave on Nov. 26. She is facing a charge of confining a child without the consent of a parent.
On Thursday evening, inmate records showed correctional deputies were holding Monslave at the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach.
Broward County Circuit Judge George Odom Jr. has been presiding over the case.