A 51-year-old grandmother, who abandoned her granddaughter at a US airport to board a flight to Honduras, has been arrested by police, according to a spokesperson for the airport in Houston, Texas.
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On Tuesday afternoon, airline employees found a little girl, 8 years old according to the local press, crying and asking for her parents in a terminal at the gigantic George-Bush International Airport.
The Spanish-speaking child explained that her grandmother, who was taking care of her, left her there and went to catch her plane.
“According to the child, her parents had left the airport to retrieve the passport” of their daughter, which they had forgotten, Augusto Bernal, director of communications for Houston airports, told AFP.
“The little girl was left alone in the check-in hall,” he added, without indicating whether the child and her grandmother were to travel together.
The parents of the child were able to be contacted thanks to the information given by the latter and came back to pick her up.
The grandmother, who had boarded the plane, was disembarked from it by airport agents and was taken into custody, Bernal said.