There's a craft shop in my local town that put on workshops for kids during the holidays. The staff set up activity and then leave the parent with child / children to attend the shop, there's only two people who work there. This is made clear at the beginning of the workshop. Crafts can take anywhere between half an hour to two hours depending on what you do and how carefully your kids do them.
So I'm helping dd in workroom, a woman and her dd came in and had activity shown to them when the staff member left the woman sat her kid down and walked off. I was busy helping dd so didn't realise at first she'd left. Half an hour passes, the mum still awol. We finish our craft and go into the shop to pay, I was about to tell the woman on the till this kid was in there on her own when the mum came back into the shop. She saw me at the till and demanded to know where her daughter was. She was literally screeching at me that I should have been watching her kid that she was only 5 and how could I leave her?! I was open mouthed, as was the shop assistant. The woman went to see her dd who had paint all down her (duurrr!) She came back into the shop and told me this. I told her her kid was not my responsibility and if I'd have known that she was only 5 I'd have called the police (girl was very big I'd have put her at 7ish)
We then left, I could hear her ranting at the shop assistant as I left. Who leaves a 5yo with a stranger and assume they'll watch them without a word? Who then has a go at said stranger for not watching the kid?
The woman is batshit yes? I can't report her to anyone, I don't know her name and only know the kids first name. Unless store has cctv?