Mom gets arrested after leaving 4 kids home alone for Las Vegas trip

She actually hung up on the deputy. Almost immediately after that phone call, she phoned her 14-year-old son, who was standing right there with the police deputy, and said, quote, you're going to get me in trouble. A Florida mom left her four kids home alone for nearly a week to go to Las Vegas, getting found out when the youngest was hit in the head by a falling dumbbell, according to authorities. The shocking allegations against Irene Miller were revealed by authorities who shared video of the 50-year-old mom being cuffed just as her plane touched down at a Florida airport on October 23rd. Miller, a Russian-born photographer, had left for a work trip across the country the previous Sunday and planned to return home five days later. She was slapped with child neglect charges after a 911 call made by one of the kids from their home in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. Cops arrived and found four children aged 9, 11, 12, and 14, with no adult supervision at the time. The case has since sparked a fierce debate about parenthood online, and at what age children can be reasonably allowed to look after themselves. On the one hand, supporters are saying that they themselves were left at home around the same ages as Irene Miller's four children. They say that at 14, a child can be considered mature enough to not only be by themselves, but take care of their younger siblings. However, on the other hand, people are outraged. Some say that she should be behind bars for the maximum sentence of 20 years that these child endangerment charges carry in the state of Florida. Though Florida law doesn't specify at what age children are allowed to be left alone, federal guidelines say that children 12 and under should not be left alone at all and kids 15 or younger should not be left with their siblings to take care of them. The mom in this case told cops that she had hired a babysitter. That babysitter came before school in the mornings and then in the afternoon after school to check on the kids. So they were really left alone from around 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. every single night for three nights in a row. Police called Miller on October 21st, explaining that her nine-year-old son had been rushed to the hospital with a head laceration. But Miller allegedly told officers she couldn't come home, a captain told the Daily Mail. And the optics for the mom are beginning to look even worse after authorities exclusively revealed to The Post what happened next. Cops told me that when they arrived at the Kissimmee house where the kids were left, they called Irene Miller to tell her about the nine-year-old son's head injury, and she actually hung up on the deputy who made that call. Almost immediately after that phone call, she phoned her 14-year-old son, who was standing right there with the police deputy, and she began scolding him for calling 911. and said, quote, you're going to get me in trouble. After the children were found, authorities contacted the children's father, Mark, and the kids were placed in his care. But her husband's record isn't exactly squeaky clean either. Mark Miller was charged with criminal battery against his wife, Irene, earlier this year, which he denies, and the pair are in the process of getting a divorce. Irene was booked into Orange County Jail but posted her $4,000 bond on October 24th. Her next court date was not immediately clear.