Leaving your toddler in the car

[cybil2403]

When you go to the petrol station and need the toilet, do you take your child with you or leave them in the car?

[HJT40]

Three times this year I have parked next to cars with toddlers in them, uaually asleep. But this is outside of a supermarket or a retail park. The cars were not even parked near the shops. On one occassion the car was unlocked. I so wish I had left a note on the drivers seat asking if it was easy for me to leave the note how easy would it be for me to take your child. But what do you do? Take the responsibility of standing there until their parent comes back and then land in to them or call the police, who probably wouldn't turn up until they had gone?

[redcrx]

omg, the parents werent anywhere near? thats awful.

there have been so many reports of this sort of thing happening, the police are often called and rightly so.

what did you do?

[upsydaisy]

Hi - I'm lucky enough that our Morrison's has pay at the pump so only ever use that. Once it was out of order so took my boy in with me.

Last year I called the police as the car next to me in Tesco car park had a approx 2.5year old boy asleep alone, the car was unlocked,I waited 10 mins before calling them. The mother eventually turned up with a full trolley of shopping and when I told her I'd called the police as I was concerned about her boy I got an earful of abuse. I wish I'd said to her had she not heard of Madie Mccann. Typically the Police didn't arrive for about 15 mins by which time she'd left - mind you they had her number plate- I wonder if they caught up with her?