A Brevard County woman is jailed again, accused of driving while suspended and trying to get away from police this weekend.

She had just gotten out of jail for a serious hit-and-run incident involving a Cocoa Beach child on New Year's Eve.

"At this time the state doesn't intend to stand by and wait for her to kill somebody on the highway," prosecutor Gary Beatty told a judge Monday.

Investigators said they saw Michelle Simkins, 28, leaving the Inner Room Cabaret around 11 p.m. Saturday night.

Her license is suspended, and they said she took off in her 2013 Hyundai Tuscon, striking a stop sign.

A chase ensued and her vehicle was found a short time later in a nearby parking lot. Simkins was arrested later at a local hotel.

"The facts in this case reflect a disregard for the safety of the public, and the case she is out on, she ran down a child and left the scene," Beatty told the court.

That case stems from this past New Year's Eve, when investigators say she hit 12-year-old Thomas Gregory. He was playing in the street with friends in front of his Bahama Boulevard home.

The following day police tracked down the vehicle, a 2013 Hyundai Tucson, at Simkins' Cocoa home. It had serious front end damage.

She was arrested three weeks later, and just got out of jail on April 9.

The latest incident happened in the same SUV, which now has even more damage.

Thomas Gregory and his mother were heading for yet another doctor's appointment in Orlando. Four months after he was struck by the SUV, he continues to slowly heal.

His father, Jeff Gregory, learned of Simkins latest arrest over the weekend.

"I hope that no one else has to go through what my family went through," he said.

"She was not supposed to be driving period," said George Penaloza, who has a 9-year-old daughter with Simkins.

When we went to Simkins home Monday, Penaloza said he came up from Miami to look after the child. He also said he is estranged from the girl's mother.

"She understands what mommy did was wrong, and that's why she's being punished,' said Penaloza.

Simkins is being held on $100,000 bond on the new charges. She's set for an arraignment on May 26.