More evidence in favor of parental licenses
i.e., requiring people to have a license in order to become a parent. Apparently a woman wanted to travel to Mexico with her son. No biggie. Well, it turns out that according to custody arrangements, she wasn't permitted to bring said child on a trip without his father's written permission, which she didn't have. Upon realizing that she didn't have the necessary documentation to bring her son on the trip, she LEFT THE KID IN THE TERMINAL and boarded the plane. This woman was just going to dump the kid at the airport while she went to Mexico. Thankfully the cops found the kid and yanked the mother off the plane before it took off. Lovely. Just freaking lovely.
UPDATE!!! She was on her way to Mazatlan with a "male companion" and her 17-year-old daughter. Her story is that she arranged for an airline employee to watch the 6-year-old while someone was on the way to pick him up, but they say that's not how it happened. The airline is saying that none of their employees consented to watching him. The person she contacted to come pick the kid up got there after the situation had developed, but mom was already on the plane by then. Bottom line is that she left the kid in a busy airport terminal while she got on the plane. Mother-of-the-Year material, this woman.
Posted by beenie at February 26, 2003 10:20 PM