Chilling Video Shows Mom, 2 Small Children On Ledge

DELRAY BEACH, FL — Police released chilling body camera video on Wednesday of a 23-year-old Florida woman who had taken a form of the street drug Ecstasy and climbed out of a second-floor window with her two young children in hand. The incident happened just one day after a former Playboy model jumped to her death in New York along with her seven-year-old son. The Florida mother and her children did not suffer any injuries.

The video shows Sgt. Brian Griffith of the Delray Beach Police Department as he tried to convince the woman to go back inside her town home in a southeast neighborhood of this seaside community just north of Boca Raton and south of West Palm Beach.

"You are not in trouble for anything," the officer could be heard saying on the video. "Just get the kids back inside, please, please. That's all we want you to do."

The woman was with her one-year-old son, who was wearing a diaper and her three-year-old daughter. The children were crying. Police said the incident took place around 4 p.m. on May 19.

At the time, Griffith couldn't help but draw comparisons to the New York tragedy.

"As he was driving to the call, he said 'I hope that woman is not aware of that (New York) incident and hoping to do the same thing," the department's Dani Moschella told Patch after releasing the video on Wednesday.

At one point, the woman demanded that the uniformed sergeant show her his badge to prove that he was a real police officer.

"No wait. No wait. You're not a real one," the woman protested. "I want to see your badge."

Officers safely took the woman into custody, according to Delray Beach police. "She was committed to a mental health facility under Florida's Baker Act."

The woman, who was not identified, may face criminal charges once she is released. Florida's Department of Children and Families took custody of the children and is conducting its own investigation, police added.

Video courtesy Delray Beach Police Department; photo via Shutterstock