A woman was reported for child abandonment after forgetting her 4-year-old daughter at a service station on the Catania ring road , near the airport.

The mother, 28, realized that the little girl was not in the back seat of the car only when she reached the city center . Then she returned and, after about an hour, she was able to hug her child again, who in the meantime had been taken care of by the crew of a police patrol car.

The officers noticed the little girl wandering around very scared and stopped her . She said she had arrived there with her mother, who she could no longer find. So the police, after checking the parked cars, the customers of the bar and questioning the employees, acquired the images from the video surveillance system. And thanks also to the little girl who provided elements to describe her mother's car, they located it, alerting the operations room of the police station.

But after about an hour, the mother returned to the service station and hugged her daughter again, before being reported. And not just for child abandonment: the 28-year-old had never obtained a driver's license and the car had been seized a few days earlier, when the same woman had been caught driving without a license.

(Online Union)