GARLAND, Texas - A 28-year-old Dallas woman accused of abandoning her seven-year-old daughter overnight outside a spa worked at a daycare facility at the time of her arrest, reports CBS DFW.

According to the station, Alicia Carroll was an employee at the Small Miracles Academy daycare in Garland.

The station spoke to a parent of one of Carroll's students as well as a co-worker and a friend, all of whom said they were shocked to hear of her arrest.

"I'm shaken up about her, about this happening to her. This is not like her," Candice Ostrowski, a mother of one of Carroll's students, told the station.

Police say Carroll abandoned her seven-year-old daughter outside a Dallas spa Saturday evening and told her to hide in a dumpster. The mother and daughter had spent a few hours at the spa Saturday evening and were spotted on security video leaving the facility shortly after 9 p.m. that night.

Police say Carroll was intoxicated and didn't remember what happened.

"I don't know how or why that happened. The only thing I can think of is something was in her drink and she wasn't in her right mind at that moment. I know she was scared and looking for her daughter," Ostrowski told CBS DFW.

No one from the daycare would speak to the station on-camera, but the child care facility did confirm Carroll is now out of a job.

A source told that station that before Carroll's arrest, child protective services had opened an investigation of her, but that it wasn't completed.

Carroll reportedly remains in the Dallas County jail and police have handed over her case to prosecutors.