PD: Mom hung up on missing child call to strip

'I have to get on stage,' Florida woman allegedly told officers

(Pasco County Sheriff's Office)

A Florida mother is accused of hanging up on a phone call with police about her missing daughter because she had to go on stage at a strip club.

Bobbey Jo Boucher, 29, left her 10-year-old daughter at a barbecue Wednesday afternoon before going to work. When the girl did not return home, her grandmother called police, Tampa TV station WTSP reported.

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When police called Boucher to tell her that her daughter was missing, she told officers "I have to get on stage" and hung up, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The girl was eventually found unharmed at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Boucher was arrested about an hour later and has been charged with misdemeanor obstruction.