Florida woman arrested after leaving son behind in drug-filled hotel room with dead man

BUNNELL, Fla. (TND) — A woman was arrested in Flagler County, Florida, after she was discovered to have left her son in a hotel room filled with drug paraphernalia and a deceased 60-year-old man.

Amy Marie Kemper, 32, was found in a hotel room at the Hammock Beach resort on September 10 as emergency teams responded to a 911 call over an attempted resuscitation of the 60-year-old male in question.

Kemper had made the 911 call and admitted there had been drug use in the room the night before. She also admitted that she brought along her 11-year-old son, who, as she would later tell authorities, witnessed drug use by his mother and two other males in the room as well as sexual activities performed by the three.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly would later describe the event in a statement, "A woman thought it was okay to bring her child to a resort in the middle of the night so she could engage in narcotic use and sexual activities. Unfortunately, her son was stuck alone in the room with the deceased male for several hours until she came back.

The boy was left alone for some amount of time in the room after his mother left the property with the other adult man. At the time of her departure, Kemper said the 60-year-old was snoring and nothing seemed amiss. When she and her male companion returned, they found the older man unresponsive.

The Florida Department of Children and Family services took custody of the child while Kemper was arrested for "Child Neglect Without Great Bodily Harm" and booked in a local jail.

She was released Monday after posting her $15,000 bond.

This is not Kemper's first encounter with the law, as police records show she was previously arrested in 2019 for domestic battery and for a marijuana possession charge in 2015.