I-Team: Police find baby alone in casino parking lot

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Video released to the Fox 8 I-Team shows the moment Cleveland police rescued a baby left alone in a car and then arrested the father downtown in the casino.

The incident happened in April, and the city just released the police body camera video to the Fox 8 I-Team.

In the video, you see the man and a woman who’d called the police and were stunned by what they saw in a car. A baby in a car seat. All alone.

A worker from the parking garage helped police open the car where inside they found a 10-month-old little girl. Officers found that no parents and no adults were with that child or anywhere nearby.

At the first sight of the child, one officer can be heard saying in the video, “Oh my God, look how beautiful she is.”

Then as an officer held the child he said, “You look tired. You don’t know who I am and you don’t care who I am.”

A short time later, police found the father with a friend inside the casino. Officers immediately put both men in handcuffs.

The father of the baby, Kyle Miller is now facing charges but is pleading not guilty.

Miller faces a charge of child endangering, a charge of tampering with evidence has been dropped.

The case is still moving through Cleveland Municipal Court.

In 2023, the I-Team revealed a similar case in which a father ended with charges for gambling at the casino downtown while leaving a 12-year-old in a car for six hours.

Police said Miller went back to check on the baby, but he left her alone for a total of close to two hours.