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British woman given prison sentence for leaving her 11 year old daughter alone on a Spanish beach
The Catalan regional police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, arrested a British woman on the beach at Salou in Tarragona last Sunday night, after she had left her 11 year daughter alone on the beach while she went drinking in a local bar.
The ‘El Punt’ newspaper said the child had been left alone on the beach for more than two hours. The alarm was raised by the parents of another child who was playing with the girl, and the mother was later found, under the influence of alcohol, in a nearby bar. The couple then took the girl to the California Garden hotel where she was staying, and there the hotel staff decided to inform the police.
The 11 year old was taken to the police station and then Child Protection services took her to a specialist centre.
The mother appeared in court in Tarragona on Tuesday and was sentenced to six months in prison.
However under Spanish law, as she has no previous record and because the sentence is less than two years, she will in fact not have to go to prison.
The ‘El Punt’ newspaper said the child had been left alone on the beach for more than two hours. The alarm was raised by the parents of another child who was playing with the girl, and the mother was later found, under the influence of alcohol, in a nearby bar. The couple then took the girl to the California Garden hotel where she was staying, and there the hotel staff decided to inform the police.
The 11 year old was taken to the police station and then Child Protection services took her to a specialist centre.
The mother appeared in court in Tarragona on Tuesday and was sentenced to six months in prison.
However under Spanish law, as she has no previous record and because the sentence is less than two years, she will in fact not have to go to prison.
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