Parents abandon child at airport check-in due to confusion with baby ticket: police

Israeli police detained two travelers with Belgian passports after airport officials saw the couple abandon their child while checking in at the airport.

Parents arrived in Tel Aviv. Ben Gurion Airport to catch a Ryanair flight to Brussels, but they were late and check-in had already closed. It remains unclear whether the parents could not or simply refused to pay for another ticket for their child, as they arrived without him.

Hoping to pass security checks and get to the flight on time, parents just abandoned the child on a conveyor belt in the check-in area, according to local news outlet Channel 12.

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In a video released by news outlets, you can hear the airport staff saying how sad that the parents had just left their child there. One woman is heard saying, “I swear she left him here!”

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Airport officials tried to force the couple to return and pick up the child, and, failing to stop them, immediately called the police, who found the parents and detained them.

Ryanair employees told N12 that everyone was shocked. “We have never seen anything like it,” said one manager.

“We couldn’t believe what we saw.”

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The parents took their child away before going to the police for questioning. They also missed their flight, Israel Today reports.

Yonat Freeling of Fox News contributed to this report.

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