A mother in Florida left her young son at the home of a stranger, sparking concerns about the child’s well-being and revealing that two other children were left unattended, officials report.

Anni Gomez, aged 29, faces charges of child abuse and three counts of child neglect without causing great bodily injury, according to records from Miami-Dade County jail. This situation came to light following an incident on Saturday.

Gomez initiated contact with a woman via WhatsApp to inquire about “buying various types of tamales.” Upon arriving to purchase the food, she inquired if the woman could care for her children, as detailed in an arrest affidavit accessed by Law&Crime.

The woman replied, “I don’t know you,” yet acknowledged she did offer childcare services. However, she insisted they needed to discuss the arrangement further. When Gomez asked if she could immediately watch her 9-year-old son, the woman declined, according to the court document.

Authorities say Gomez ignored the refusal. “The defendant opened the Uber door, took [her son] out of the vehicle, and as [the son] approached [the woman], the defendant re-entered the Uber and departed, leaving the child behind,” the affidavit reports.

It was then that the woman noticed injuries to the boy’s face, and she asked him what happened. He initially said he fell down, but when pushed to tell the truth, the child divulged that his mother “hits him frequently,” authorities stated.

“She hits me with her phone on the head and beats me daily,” the boy said, per the affidavit. “She sometimes scratches me with her nails,” he added, saying he didn’t want to leave where he was “because he was scared of the defendant.”

The woman called the police, and sometime later, Gomez contacted the woman, saying she was returning in an Uber to pick up her son. Officers would be waiting for her.

About 15 minutes later, Gomez was detained and brought into police custody. Within the next 40 minutes, officers went to the defendant’s home to find her other two children, but no one was there.

An officer then went to speak to the 9-year-old boy, who had been brought to a hospital for his injuries. According to the affidavit, the boy recalled that while at home, he fell on the floor, “at which point his mother began kicking him … causing a black eye.”

The child went on, saying “his mother continued to hit him in the head, causing him to bleed. He stated that she hits him on a daily basis and that he does not know the reason why,” police detailed, adding that the boy said he wanted his mom arrested for what she was doing to him.

The officer speaking with him noticed injuries including the black eye, a swollen right cheek, bruises on both of his cheeks, clotted blood above his right eyebrow, and scratches all over his body, including his head, per the court document. A child protection worker was called to evaluate the boy.

An officer found the two other children who had been “unsupervised for over several hours.” They were both boys, with one being 7 years old and the other just 3 months old. They had been brought to another woman’s home after the 7-year-old child called the woman from an iPad saying his mom had left him and the baby alone and had not returned.

The same boy recounted that his mom left him with the baby because she “needed to go to do some errands.” The other woman then picked them up and brought them to her house.

Gomez was read her Miranda rights — and after being faced with the allegations against her, she denied them all, authorities said. She was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.