Parents allegedly ditch their 10-year-old at airport — jetting off to vacation without him: ‘Completely surreal'
An unnamed mother and father allegedly abandoned a 10-year-old boy at an unidentified airport in Spain after realizing they didn't pack all of the tot's necessary travel documents.
Unwilling to miss their flight, the jet-setters boarded the airbus, leaving their son in the airport terminal, where a family member would eventually — hopefully — retrieve him.
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3 A whistleblower on social media blasted parents for allegedly leaving their 10-year-old son in the airport while they caught a flight.
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'[The kid] told [police] that his parents were on the plane, on their way to their home country for vacation,' said Lilian, a purported air-operations coordinator at the plane station where the incident occurred.
She detailed the chaos to over 320,000 TikTok viewers. Her claims, however, have not yet been verified.
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'The explanation given to [the authorities] was that the child was traveling with an expired passport from Spain, and needed a travel visa,' said Lilian, speaking Spanish in the clip. 'Since he didn't have a visa, they left the kid in the terminal and called a relative to pick him up.'
'I didn't see it as normal,' she noted. 'The police didn't see it as normal either.'
3 Lilina, who claims to be an airport staffer, labeled the boy's abandonment one of the most 'surreal' experiences she's had while on the job.
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Sure, most airlines allow children to fly alone — but leaving an unaccompanied minor alone in the airport just doesn't fly with most people worldwide.
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Still, accidents do happen.
A couple in Germany forgot their five-year-old daughter at Berlin's Stuttgart Airport back in 2018, claiming they'd each thought the other parent had taken charge of the girl.
More recently, an unattended two-year-old was swept away on a luggage conveyor belt at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport in late May.
3 Lilian claims the boy's parents did not have the proper travel documents for him, but didn't want to miss the flight to their home country for vacation.
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But Lilian, a mother of a now-adult daughter, says the abandonment of the 10-year-old boy was the most 'surreal' situation she's ever experienced as an airport employee.
'Hallucinating?' she questioned of the kid's folks.
'I'm an air traffic controller, and as a controller, I've seen a lot of things, but this has been completely surreal,' Lilian groaned. 'I'm amazed to think how parents could possibly leave their ten-year-old son at the terminal because he can't travel due to documentation issues.'
She continued giving the unidentified dopes a harsh tongue lashing for putting their son's safety at risk.
'They call a relative, who might take half an hour, an hour or three hours, and they calmly board the flight and leave the child behind,' she spat. 'As a mother, I'd freak out.'
Lilian reported that airport cops ultimately removed the parents' luggage from the flight and brought the pair to the on-site police station for questioning.
It's unclear whether the boy's parents were arrested.
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