A toddler was intentionally left by his parents inside a shopping mall in Brazil. The 2-year-old kid was said to have been abandoned after his mother and father had a fight.
Closed circuit television (CCTV) footage of the incident showed a man with a backpack carrying a small boy entering the Rio Sul Shopping Center in Rio de Janeiro. After getting inside the mall through a sliding door, the man was seen bringing down the child and leaving him in an instant.
Daily Star said the woman, who was seen behind the doors, was the mother of the child. It explained that the child even tried to follow his mother who rushed outside and did not mind about her son.
It was a good thing that a man sitting beside the entrance door stopped the little boy from going outside the mall and wandering around the streets. Security officers of the shopping mall took the child into custody and transferred him to a nearby child-care center.
According to Daily Mail, the father of the abandoned kid was later identified as a waiter that works in a restaurant inside the mall. He was taken into custody by the authorities but blamed his wife for leaving their son.
"The man who claims to be the father is saying he argued with the mum before going off to work," said police spokesperson Barbara Lomba. "He says he thought the child had stayed with the mum and as he didn't look back he wasn't aware the mum had gone off in the opposite direction and the youngster had been left alone."
However, police claimed that until know the man has not yet provided them with proof that he is really the father. Daily Star said investigation still ongoing but once proven guilty of child abandonment, both parents could be jailed for six months to three years.
