Arrested in Malaga for leaving their six-month-old baby alone in the hotel to go to dinner in Soho

11/05/2022 at 08:45

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The National Police located the little boy in good condition in the crib in the H10 room, where he was unaccompanied for around 40 minutes.

A couple of tourists have been arrested in Malaga for leaving her completely alone baby six months in the hotel room in which they stayed to go to dinner at another establishment of the Center. According to police sources, the parents, natives of the Netherlands, They were arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime of child abandonment. The little boy, who was located by the agents in good condition, was at least forty minutes without company.

The events occurred the night of October 29 in the newly released H10 Chromalocated between the Hoyo de Esparteros square and the Guadalmedina river.

A client of the hotel bar called around 8:00 p.m. 091 to communicate a scene that disturbed him. He said that she had coincided in the establishment’s cafeteria with a group of adults who were carrying a baby. And that the one who looked like the father left with the small path of the elevator to return minutes later without the child. Before the group left the hotel, the witness explained that he saw the child’s mother use a mobile application through which the baby’s crying was heard.

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With the National Police already there, with the collaboration of the establishment, the agents made several steps that allowed them to locate the room in which the baby was. There was no sound from inside until there was a knock on the door, which had a do not disturb sign on the knob. The child cried, no one opened the door and the policemen asked the hotel to enter. They found the child in the crib and a mobile placed specifically to focus on his position, although the device seemed to have moved and was not pointing at the child.

The agents asked the establishment to contact the owners of the room, who at the time of the call were dining at a popular Soho restaurant with the baby’s maternal grandparents and another couple. When they arrived at the hotel, the parents were arrested for an alleged crime of child abandonment and the child remained in the custody of his grandparents, who were also staying at the establishment.

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