I really hope she's not an MNer, but..........

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......if you are, I hope you appreciate how close you were to having the police called last night

Now, I admit I leave DSs/DD is the car at the petrol station, I'll even leave DD asleep outside the school whilst I run and grab DSs from the playground, but I'd never leave a 5 year old asleep, alone in a car whilst I wander round IKEA.

This 5 year old woke up, found himself alone so got out of the car to go and find his mum. Our car park is huge, and dark and people drive like maniacs. We don't know how long he was wandering around before a very nice man found him sobbing his heart out hiding in one of the trolley dumps. Luckily he could tell security his mum's name, although it took three tannoy calls before she bothered to find out why she was being called (she admitted to hearing all of them!)

The majority view last night was that the police should have been called. She was just damn 'lucky' that someone decided to give her the benefit of the doubt first.

I'm still so p'd off with this

Poor little boy

you should've called the police.

OMG

You should have called the police.

An anonymous tip off to Mail might do it, they love that sort of thing.

Disgusing, who in their right mind would do that?

i would have rung the police qfter the secind atnnoy attempt failed to be honest. THats disgusting. My DPs reaction was that social services should have been called.

I would have taken her car reg number down and reported it.

Is there cctv in the car park? she could still be traced

that's disgusting - I hope someone told her so as well

I can't believe anyone would do that. That child could be scared for life. We lost our two years ago in Ikea and it was the most terifying 20mins of our lives, and that was becuase we turned our backs for two seconds, i dread to think how far they could have got if they were left in a car park all alone.

Oh MY GOD.
Poor little mite.
What a mad, cruel, awful, stupid thing to have done.

unbelievable.

TBH I really don't know why they weren't. I only found out the details about an hour after it all happened, my manager was still stomping around spitting nails at that point.

omg, cant belive that

Very 'lucky' that the nice man who found him was a 'nice man'.

This story is totally ing.
Some people do not deserve to be a parent.

Actually, I hope that she is a MNer, or is at least reading this. Perhaps that way some of the comments will shake her into never doing that again.

That was our thought MF1stT, the poor bloke was apparently (sp? looks odd!) really uncomfortable bringing him in. Probably thought we were going to accuse him of something

I can imagine that the man did feel uncomfortable bringing him into the store.

Reminds me of an old only fools and horses episode where del finds a young lad (about same age) who has run away from his mum. It is dark and late. Del takes his hand and walks him home.
Now a days that image, I dont think anyway, would be on tv. Which is a shame because some man must worry about being blamed for things and put into uncomfortable situations.

At Legoland my friend and I were waiting by a ride while my husband took the kids on a ride and this little boy no more than 1 and a half was crying in his pram so we called out to the que (yellow dragon ride ) if this little boy belonged to anyone ,we asked several times. so this baby was getting really upset I was talking to him and several people came up to see what was wrong .Ten minutes later the kid was hysterical by now the parents returned from another ride from which they could not see the child. Well I went so mad at them literally screaming and shouting I got so upset I cried and other people had a go as well .I just couldnt believe how they could put the safety of their child below taking their other kids on a ride . Some People .

When I was about 7, my mum left me, and my baby sister, in the car while she went over the road to get some shopping. I was terrified, and ran out of the car, looking for her. I nearly got run over...

Obviously, this was in the good old days of leaving your kids in the car while you went into the pub for a drink, so not such a 'bad mum' thing to do. However, it did affect me for a long time.

she really should have been reported. If she does this in public what happens behind closed doors? Serious case of neglect.

Is it selfishness or dopeyness that makes people do these things?

It's actually quite amazing that this boy didn't come to any harm, but he must have been traumatised. He could have been run over or abducted by a paedophile. Thoughtless woman

I was at the local shops once, just reversed out and was about to pull away when I spotted a little boy, about 3 years old, standing by the cars opposite and no parent near him at all, I pulled my car back in and got out and asked him where his mummy was, he didn't know She came out of the shop and said 'oh he was sleeping when I left him' I was so angry with her, I was shaking, but I bit my lip and drove away. She had parked away from the shop and he might have ran across the car park to the shops to find her.

i was in a car park when i noticed a wee boy in a car alone. when the dad returned, we gave him an earful, cheek to say who were we to tell him how to raise his child! i responded someone needs to what if something has happened to the dad and he had to be taken to hopital etc, how long would the wee one have been left in the car for then

Unbelievable!