Parents leave 3-year-old in car, ignition on, then forget where they park in Sharjah

The case of the three-year old Afghan boy in a stolen car has now turned out to be a case of gross parental neglect.

As more details of the case in Sharjah have emerged, Sharjah Police have now confirmed that the car with the toddler inside was not stolen.

Unbelievably, the parents of the boy not only left him in the car, but then forgot where he parked the car. The father left it with the ignition on, which is what made him think it was stolen.

The Sharjah Police safely returned the three-year-old to his family after acting on the stolen complaint, only to discover the parked vehicle.

According to a statement from the Media and Public Relations of Sharjah Police, the police received a call at around 8pm on Monday evening from a father who reported that his car was stolen along with his child when he left it parked in the Al Qassimiyah area.

He told the police that he had parked his car in a sandy area and went with his wife looking for a residential flat to rent.

According to the statement, 50 police patrols searched various Sharjah roads.

After two hours the Criminal Investigation Department found the car where the father parked and the boy crying inside but he was in a good condition.

The father and mother were hysterical condition thinking that their son was kidnapped.

Sharjah Police have urged people to avoid leaving their cars with the ignition on and to never leave their cars unattended.

Boy dies in car while parents at funeral

US - Tampa Bay-area authorities are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy forgotten in a car while his parents attended a funeral. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office says Kyrese Dwayne Anderson of Lehigh Acres was accidentally left in the car in the afternoon.

Authorities tell The Tampa Tribune that Kyrese's parents had driven separately to drop off the boy and two other children at a babysitter's house before the funeral in palmetto.

The sheriff's office says both parents went to the funeral thinking that all three children were with the babysitter. The boy was discovered inside one of their cars as they were leaving the funeral.

An autopsy will be performed Monday. No charges have been filed. AP

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