TWO thieves who spotted a car with its engine running, jumped in to go for a joy ride only to find an eight-year-old child in the back seat.
The boy’s mother had got out of
the car at a post office she works in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginia-Pilot reported.
The opportunistic thieves took theChevrolet Impala only to find the boy inside and told him his mother had wanted them to drive him to school and asked for the address.
They drove him almost a kilometre toGhent Elementary School, dropped him off, and then drove away.
The mother discovered the car and her son missing after about 20 minutes and called the police.
“The mum ran into work to take care of a few things and left the car running with the music on,” Norfolk Police Departmentspokeswoman Melinda Wray told People. “Apparently, this was something she did regularly and had never had any problems.”
About 10 minutes later the boy was found at school and the car was found abandoned almost five kilometres from the school through the iPhone the mother had left in the car.
“All of our officers began looking for the car and this little boy,” says Wray. They found him “sitting in class as if nothing had happened,” she added.
When police interviewed the boy, he revealed that two men, whom he did not know, got into the car and told him they were supposed to take him to school.
“It was slightly odd to him. He was nervous because he had never seen these men before,” said Wray.
“The child, after he learnt the true details of what happened, he was obviously shaken. But the men were not trying to abduct him. They were just trying to steal the vehicle.”
Norfolk Police have yet to make any arrests over the theft of the vehicle and are also looking into whether the mother should face charges of child neglect.
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