In an unsettling incident in Florida, a tow truck driver is now facing criminal charges after allegedly towing a vehicle with a 4-year-old girl still inside. Surveillance footage captured the girl’s father frantically pursuing the tow truck and shouting to alert the driver about his daughter’s presence before she tragically fell from the car onto the road, authorities report.

The arrest report, as obtained by Law&Crime, details the account of Sergio Jesus Suarez, who has been charged with child neglect. The report indicates that Suarez initiated the towing process without stepping out of his truck or checking the car for passengers. This occurred even as the child’s father ran towards the truck, pounding on the window and repeatedly shouting that a child was inside.

The father recounted to police that he had been in the Bistro Creole restaurant in Sunrise for just about two minutes when he noticed his Honda Accord being towed. Suarez claimed that his “spotter” failed to indicate that a child was inside the vehicle.

According to police, the father described how the tow truck had already lifted his car by the time he reached it. Despite his desperate attempts to alert Suarez by banging on the truck’s window and shouting that his daughter was inside, the driver proceeded to accelerate and exit the parking lot with the girl still in the vehicle.

The father reportedly chased the tow truck through a plaza and onto West Oakland Park Boulevard, continuing his pleas to the driver. He told police that he then saw his daughter “fall out of the vehicle onto the roadway.” The young girl was subsequently hospitalized, suffering injuries to both arms and her right calf.

“[The father] immediately ran into traffic, picked up his daughter … and moved her to safety,” the report says, citing statements made by a witness that allegedly corroborate the dad’s story.

“She heard yelling and observed a tow truck pulling a black sedan while [the father] chased the truck, yelling repeatedly,” the report recounts. “She saw the rear driver-side door open and a child fall out of the vehicle. She stated the tow truck was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time and continued driving eastbound after the child fell into the roadway.”

The surveillance video, which was obtained by local Fox affiliate WSVN, allegedly shows Suarez initiating the tow and driving away without exiting the vehicle or checking the dad’s Honda for occupants.

Police say that Suarez’s failure to inspect the vehicle prior to towing it, combined with his decision to continue driving — despite being alerted that a child was inside — created a “foreseeable and substantial risk of serious bodily harm or death,” which led to the charge he’s facing.

“His actions constituted culpable negligence and demonstrated a reckless disregard for the safety of a minor, directly resulting in injury to the child,” the arrest report states.

Suarez appeared at a bond hearing Monday night, during which a Broward County judge dressed him down for his alleged behavior.

“This is one that stuck out to me this morning,” Judge Corey Friedman said, according to WSVN. “He admitted that he didn’t look at the vehicle and I think it’s also on surveillance.”

Suarez’s lawyer claimed in court that he told him he checked the father’s Honda three times before he towed it. “There was no child inside,” the attorney reportedly said.

Suarez was released on bond Monday and does not have his next court date scheduled yet.