Horror at Disney as Woman Found Unresponsive with Babies in Back Seat

This is one of those stories that makes you wonder what people are thinking when they bring children to theme parks. Disney security made a horrifying discovery in the Hollywood Studios parking lot in the early morning hours of December 18, 2025, and what they found has led to a full-blown child neglect investigation involving multiple agencies.

Here’s what happened, and trust us, it gets worse the more details you learn, per WDW Active Calls.

Security Couldn’t Wake Her Up

Shortly before 2:00 AM, Disney security personnel were patrolling the Mickey Parking Lot at Hollywood Studios when they came across a black Tesla in Row 300. Inside the vehicle was a woman who appeared to be passed out or unconscious. The car was turned off, hazard lights were flashing, and there was barely any ventilation with just a cracked window.

Security tried everything to wake this woman up. They honked their patrol vehicle horn. They called out to her. Nothing worked. She was described as very pale and completely unresponsive to any attempts at verbal contact.

That’s when they called the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and requested Fire Rescue. Because at this point, they’re thinking this could be a medical emergency, an overdose situation, or something equally serious that requires immediate professional intervention.

🔁 UPDATE to previous call: Person Down ➡️
Changed to: Child Neglect
📍 Disney’s Hollywood Studios#WaltDisneyWorld #Disney https://t.co/rbO51VBlq7

— Walt Disney World: Active Calls (@WDWActiveCrime) December 18, 2025

Multiple sheriff’s units and Fire Rescue arrived on scene to assess the situation. The woman eventually became responsive while deputies were there, which initially seemed like maybe this would turn out to be a medical issue or extreme exhaustion or something that could be resolved with medical attention.

But then deputies discovered something that changed everything about this call.

There Were Children in the Car

As the investigation continued, deputies confirmed that young children were inside the vehicle with the unresponsive woman. Two kids. Ages 3 and 5 years old. In a parked car in a theme park parking lot at 2 AM with an adult who couldn’t be woken up.

Let that sink in for a moment.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office immediately upgraded the call classification from “Man Down” to “Child Neglect.” This wasn’t just a welfare check anymore. This was a situation where two very young children were in potential danger with a caregiver who was completely incapacitated in a vehicle with minimal ventilation during overnight hours.

The Florida Department of Children and Families was notified and sent investigators to the scene. After assessing the situation, DCF took custody-related action involving both children. We don’t know the specifics of where the kids were placed or what’s happening with custody now because that information is protected under child welfare privacy laws, but DCF doesn’t take custody action lightly. They determined these kids were not safe in this situation.

The response involved multiple sheriff’s units, Fire Rescue, Disney Security, and DCF personnel all coordinating at this parking lot scene in the middle of the night. Deputies also issued a trespass warning, meaning this woman is now banned from Disney World property.

But wait, it gets even more complicated. Law enforcement activity extended beyond Hollywood Studios. Deputies traveled to Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort where they conducted additional investigative steps, suggesting there might be connections between what happened in the parking lot and something at that resort hotel.

Records indicate the woman was either arrested or transported for medical evaluation after everything went down, though the exact final outcome isn’t specified in the available documentation.

This Wasn’t Her First Theme Park Incident

Here’s where this story takes an even darker turn. Public records show this same woman had a prior arrest at Universal Orlando earlier in 2025. And guess what? It involved the SAME TWO KIDS.

On February 18, 2025, about ten months before the Disney incident, Orlando police responded to Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort for a disturbance. Universal Security reported that this woman tried to run away when they attempted to make contact with her about the situation.

When officers arrived, they found two adult males with two small children. One of the men was extremely intoxicated and acting erratically while being trespassed from Universal property. Then officers were told there was a female passed out in the parking lot.

They found the woman asleep on the ground near a vehicle with her face literally in the dirt. When they woke her up, she showed all the classic signs of alcohol impairment including slurred speech, bloodshot glassy eyes, and the smell of alcohol coming off her. Fire Rescue came to do a welfare check but she refused medical care.

After being told she was trespassed from Universal and free to leave, the arrest report says she became hostile and erratic. She grabbed one of her children and kept causing a scene. Officers had to physically remove the child from her because they deemed it an immediate safety concern.

She was arrested right there and charged with disorderly intoxication, resisting an officer with violence, and battery on a law enforcement officer. The whole thing was captured on police body cameras.

The Same Kids, Ten Months Apart

So let’s be absolutely clear about what we’re looking at here. The same woman. The same two children, now ages 3 and 5. Two separate theme park properties. Two separate incidents requiring law enforcement intervention and removal of the children from her care.

In February at Universal, she was arrested on multiple charges including violence against police officers. In December at Disney, DCF had to take custody-related action again because she was found unresponsive in a car with these same kids at 2 AM in a parking lot.

This is a pattern. This is documented evidence across two different jurisdictions and two different theme park corporations showing ongoing child welfare issues that multiple agencies have now had to address.

The fact that there were ten months between these incidents and the same concerning behavior is still happening speaks to how serious this situation is for these children. A 3-year-old and a 5-year-old don’t deserve to be put in these positions repeatedly. They don’t deserve to be in a car with an unresponsive adult at 2 AM. They don’t deserve to be grabbed and used as props during someone’s hostile interaction with law enforcement.

Why This Matters Beyond Disney

Look, theme park incidents happen. With millions of visitors every year, you’re going to get medical emergencies, you’re going to get people who make poor decisions, you’re going to get situations that require security and law enforcement response. That’s just statistics when you’re dealing with that volume of people.

But this isn’t about someone having a heart attack in line for Tower of Terror. This isn’t about a guest getting heat exhaustion because they didn’t hydrate properly. This is about children being repeatedly placed in dangerous situations by the adult who’s supposed to be protecting them.

Theme parks work closely with local law enforcement and DCF specifically because they know situations like this can and do happen on their properties. Disney security is trained to recognize when something goes beyond their internal capabilities to handle. They did exactly what they were supposed to do by calling in the Sheriff’s Office and making sure proper authorities responded.

The same is true for Universal security back in February. They identified a problem, they called Orlando police, and they let the professionals handle a situation that clearly required arrest and DCF involvement.

But here we are, ten months later, and history repeated itself at a different theme park with the same vulnerable children caught in the middle.

The Children Are What Matters Here

At the end of the day, this story is about two little kids who have now been documented in multiple law enforcement incidents at Central Florida theme parks in 2025. A 3-year-old and a 5-year-old who should be focused on meeting characters and riding attractions and eating Mickey-shaped ice cream, not being subjects of child neglect investigations.

DCF involvement across multiple incidents means the child welfare system is aware and presumably taking action to protect these children. We can hope that whatever custody arrangements or family services are now in place will prevent a third incident from happening at yet another theme park or any other location.

The coordination between Disney Security, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Fire Rescue, and DCF during the December incident shows that systems exist to intervene when children’s safety is at risk. Those systems worked as intended. Security noticed a problem, called the right people, and let the proper authorities take over.

But the fact that these systems had to activate twice in one year for the same children is what should concern everyone reading this story.

A Difficult Reality

These situations are incredibly difficult to write about and even harder to process as news stories. Theme parks represent escape and happiness and family memories for most people. Having to report on child neglect investigations and law enforcement responses at Disney World creates cognitive dissonance between what these places are supposed to represent and the reality that bad situations can happen anywhere.

If you’ve ever been at a theme park or any public place and felt concerned about a child’s welfare but weren’t sure whether to say something, these stories are your answer. Security personnel and law enforcement would rather respond to ten false alarms than miss one genuine situation where a child needs intervention.

Disney security did the right thing by calling authorities when they found an unresponsive woman with children in a vehicle at 2 AM. Universal security did the right thing by calling police when they witnessed concerning behavior in February. These weren’t situations where “minding your own business” was the appropriate response.

Share your thoughts in the comments if you’ve ever been in a position where you had to make a judgment call about reporting something concerning involving children. How did you decide whether to speak up? What happened when you did? These conversations matter because they help other people understand when concern is warranted and when action is necessary to protect kids who can’t protect themselves.