SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

Po­lice say no charges will be brought against the rel­a­tives of a one-year-old girl who was found wan­der­ing alone at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the child was spot­ted wan­der­ing in a dark area of the Sa­van­nah by a fam­i­ly on an out­ing around 7 pm on Sun­day.

Po­lice were alert­ed and ac­cord­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS’) pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer, ASP Sheri­don Hill, the child was re­turned to her rel­a­tives less than 20 min­utes lat­er.

Hill said he was told the child’s moth­er said the child was play­ing be­tween two groups of her ex­tend­ed fam­i­ly when she wan­dered off.

Hill said the of­fi­cers de­ter­mined the child had not been aban­doned and made a de­ci­sion not to pur­sue charges against the par­ents.

Short­ly af­ter the child was found, one Twit­ter user made a post about the sit­u­a­tion.

The tweet soon went vi­ral, with oth­er users screen­shot­ting it and shar­ing it on oth­er so­cial me­dia sites.

Scores of oth­er users con­demned the fam­i­ly, say­ing the child was in dan­ger.

On one post on In­sta­gram, a woman who iden­ti­fied her­self as the child’s aunt said the lit­tle girl was do­ing well.

She de­nied the child had been aban­doned, say­ing, “Every­one was out kite fly­ing, in less than a minute she wan­dered off, thank God it was a Good Samar­i­tan who found her, we are a God-fear­ing fam­i­ly. She is home and do­ing fine.”

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