Family drove 100 miles before realizing they’d left toddler at service station

[Jazzy]

A family on holiday drove nearly 100 miles before realizing they had left their three-year-old daughter at a motorway lay-by.

The family, who are French, had stopped at a rest area off the A7 Autoroute du Solei near Loriol while en route to the French Riviera on Sunday, but when they departed they forgot their toddler.

They were almost 100 miles away when they heard an alert on the radio that a child had been found and realized it was their daughter.

The toddler had been found by other holidaymakers at the service station, but all she could tell them was that they were ‘going to the seaside’ and ‘Daddy’s car had pulled away,’ The Guardian reports.

‘The family had passed Aix-en-Provence and were going towards Saint-Raphaël and none of them had noticed she wasn’t there,’ a gendarme said.

‘We are going to listen to what they have to say and talk to the prosecutor at Valence to see if this should be taken further.’

The girl was reunited with her family, who had turned the car around and retraced their journey back to the service station.

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"Forgot". Sounds like they left the child on purpose.

Your thoughts?

 

[Smiley]

Not the first nor the last time something like this happens. I just don't understand how can anyone forget their own child. And, to make it even more confusing, drive for so many miles without noticing the child is not with them in a vehicle.

I understand that sometimes people can be forgetful, and forget to take something with them when they're going somewhere, like a key, some documents, umbrella, or whatever, but to forget their own children? How, exactly? I mean, children aren't known to be silent, so wouldn't someone notice the child is suspiciously quiet and check it out? Even if they thought the child was sleeping the whole time, which would account for silence, shouldn't they, as parents, at least check to see if the child is okay, from time to time?

Or am I giving too much credit to the human race again?

 

[Elvira]

I thought this only hapened on tv.

 

[Smiley]

 

[MrDawn]

That was smart.