Confusion over lost girl
A misunderstanding between a babysitter and a little girl’s parents was the reason no-one reported the child missing, Christchurch police said yesterday. The child, aged about three, was found by the police wandering alone in Hampshire Street, Wainoni, at 2.15 a.m. on Saturday. She was taken to a Social Welfare Department home for safekeeping while the police, puzzled that no child had been reported missing, waited for someone to claim her. The parents came forward early that afternoon. The police said that the child had been left with a babysitter, who awoke to discover she was gone but assumed the mother had returned and picked her up. It was not until the mother arrived to get the child that they realised she had wandered off. The police planned to take no further action over the incident, but the Social Welfare Department was expected to look into it.
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