I have the same experience. There are no other reports of this story (apart from Skenazy's blog). I went looking through Florida police blotters in April for neglect charges. I read some pretty heinous shit (cages, for instance, were involved in one case). Nothing this dumb.

Skenazy doesn't even need to be biased or dishonest for this story not to be the whole truth (or true at all); she just has to not fact-check it.

I'd be curious if anyone came up with a way to independent corroborate any part of this story.