Woman in Pavlodar left her one-year-old child in taxi
A woman in Pavlodar left her one-year-old child in a taxi. The baby was in a taxi for an hour, the agency reports.
Pavlodar. January 14. Kazakhstan Today - A woman in Pavlodar left her one-year-old child in a taxi. The baby was in a taxi for an hour, the agency reports.
Janna Belyalova, employee of the press service of internal affairs of the region, lieutenant colonel of police, informed this odd case occurred the day before. The police received an unusual message that a 25-year-old woman had left her one-year-old son in a taxi. The car drove her to the mentioned address and left. The woman could remember neither the car, nor the number of the car.
"After about an hour, employees of the city Department of Internal Affairs, senior sergeant Kayrat Tukenov and sergeant Ersyn Sarsenbaev, found the boy in an automobile Foltsvagen-Passat that was near one of the cafes. The boy was very quiet and he was silently sitting in the back of the car all this time. The taxi driver drove some customers, but none of the passengers noticed little Sayat." According to the police officers, they have had such a case for the first time.
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