Mother of four-year-old girl who was alone in a house in Arrecife arrested

The woman was arrested this Thursday by the National and Local Police for an alleged crime of abandonment

February 28 2020 (11:59 WET)
Mother arrested of the four-year-old girl who was alone in a house in Arrecife
Mother arrested of the four-year-old girl who was alone in a house in Arrecife

The mother of the four-year-old girl who was alone in a house in Arrecife has been arrested for an alleged crime of child abandonment.

The arrest occurred this Thursday by the National Police and the Local Police, after the firefighters came to rescue the girl, who "was leaning out of one of the windows, at risk of falling into the void."

After the arrest, the events were brought to the attention of the Prosecutor's Office for Minors, which ruled that the girl be handed over to a person close to the mother. As for the detainee, who is 25 years old and of Spanish nationality, she was brought to justice on Friday morning.

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