A woman has been arrested on suspicion of abandoning her child during a drunken holiday in Majorca.
The mum, 45, was being held at a hotel in the town of Manacor after she allegedly left her five-year-old daughter on her own to go out boozing “from the moment she got up to the moment she went to bed”.
According to the police, tourists looked after the toddler, giving her food, buying her armbands for the swimming pool and putting sun cream on her.
Hotel staff reportedly refused to sell any more drinks to the mother, but she is believed to have bought more booze from a nearby supermarket.
The child’s dad travelled from Ireland to the Mediterranean island where he was reunited with his daughter.
A spokesperson for the Spanish police told the Mirror: “We have arrested an Irish woman aged 45 who was on holiday in Majorca for a crime of child abandonment.
“She left the youngster alone so she could drink alcohol. She began drinking the first day she arrived at a hotel in Manacor.
“She drank large amounts and consumed alcohol from the moment she got up to the moment she went to bed.”
The spokesperson said hotel staff stopped serving the woman, but she went to a supermarket opposite where she was staying to buy beer which she then drank outside the store.
Officers said the arrest was made last Tuesday after other guests alerted the police.
The spokesperson said: “She was arrested after being located in her hotel room and finally opening the door in a state of obvious drunkenness.
“The child was taken to a specialist centre until the following day when her father, who was in Ireland, arrived to take charge of her.”
On Sunday (July 2) it remained unclear whether the woman, who has not been named, had appeared in court and what the result of any court hearing has been.
It is understood social services in Ireland will be informed of the case by their Spanish counterparts, according to the Mirror.
