An Orlando father was arrested last week on a child abuse charge after his autistic child was found alone and naked on an Interstate-4 ramp while the dad was out delivering food, court records show.

The father, 36-year-old Jeremy Jaron Rouse, told police he didn’t immediately search for the child he knew was missing because he didn’t want to hurt his Uber Eats rating, according to his arrest report.

Altamonte Springs police responded around 11 p.m. on Oct. 16 to an I-4 on-ramp near State Road 436 after receiving reports of an unattended child. An officer saw the child running naked down the on-ramp. A passerby ran after and grabbed the child, who was then placed in the back of the officer’s patrol car, the report said.

The police department did not provide the age or gender of the child

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