A family from Israel made news over night by leaving their three year old at the airport. Remember the old movie, Home Alone, where the parents are bustling around trying to catch an airplane with all of their children and belongings? Well, this case seems to mimic the movie to a degree.
The family was running behind trying to catch a plane to Paris for a vacation. The parents and their five children were hustling, they made it…well, most of them anyway. Eighteen pieces of luggage and four of the five children boarded with the parents; the fifth child was left behind without the parents realizing it. She had to be full of fear. A little over half of an hour into their flight they were informed by an airline employee that they left their three year old daughter at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel.
I can’t begin to imagine the terror of that. Anytime i leave home for an extended period of time…i torture myself going over the thousands of things that i imagine that have been forgotten! Their daughter was found by a policeman; but, it was too late…the parents and siblings had left on the plane.
The family reunited when an airline employee and the child took another plane to Paris. No doubt that when they return the family members will be questioned about the incident…they could even face charges of neglect or abandonment. As long as it was an accident and not a purposeful child endangerment; hopefully, further trauma will be avoided by not pressing charges. Thank God the child is safe. I would imagine that when they fly home they will have some sort of safety, buddy system procedure in place to prevent another terribly scary incident.
Write where you are 
This is home alone the movie. How do you get on a airplane not knowing that all of your children are not with you. There is no excuse for this. The first thing you do before you get on the airplane you make sure all the children are there. You have five children, you make sure that five children are getting on the airplane.
I don’t know what kind of parent they are. When they get back home, they need to be put in jail or something. They should not get away with this. This child was walking around in the airport alone. There are too many crazy people in this world. Just think what could have happen to this child. God know how long it’s going to take the child to get over this. She was left along by herself.
I don’t think they should get away with it.
I agree only in part. It’s true that you don’t forget your kids so easily but God only knows what happened. Accidents happen, give them a break.