Spaniard arrested for locking daughter in car to go boozing
Fiona Govan - [email protected]
Published: 9 Jun, 2016 CET.
Updated: Thu 9 Jun 2016 16:12 CET
A father has been arrested for abandonment after leaving his seven-year-old daughter locked in a car to go out drinking.
Police in Aracena, a town in the Huelva district of southern Spain, were called after reports that a child had been left for hours in a locked car.
According to a statement from the town hall, the little girl had been left sleeping in the parked car at around 11pm last Saturday night.
Hours later, at 3am a neighbour called police to report that they had found the young girl unaccompanied and visibly distressed.
"She was very scared, crying and asking for her Dad," said the statement from the town hall.
Police finally located the child’s father at around 4.30 am “in a state of inebriation”. It is understood that he had visited several bars since leaving the girl and had been drinking “copas” – spirits.
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Police in Aracena, a town in the Huelva district of southern Spain, were called after reports that a child had been left for hours in a locked car.
According to a statement from the town hall, the little girl had been left sleeping in the parked car at around 11pm last Saturday night.
Hours later, at 3am a neighbour called police to report that they had found the young girl unaccompanied and visibly distressed.
"She was very scared, crying and asking for her Dad," said the statement from the town hall.
Police finally located the child’s father at around 4.30 am “in a state of inebriation”. It is understood that he had visited several bars since leaving the girl and had been drinking “copas” – spirits.
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