Mother in Hong Kong held after unattended son throws items from flat, damaging car
Woman, 29, held over neglect after four-year-old, reportedly left home alone, threw objects from fifth-floor window onto car below
A woman in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of neglect after allegedly leaving her four-year-old son home alone, during which time he threw objects from a window, damaging a parked car below.
Police said on Wednesday that they received a report in the early hours concerning a boy suspected of throwing plastic bottles and other items from a residential flat on Tai Nan Street in Sham Shui Po.
A video widely shared online shows an object being thrown from the building’s fifth floor, hitting a BMW car parked by the roadside and smashing its rear windscreen.
Online photos also showed a yellow toy, along with other items, which had hit the car’s rear windscreen. Objects – including broken toys, plastic bottles and a pillow – were scattered across the road beside the vehicle.
Officers were deployed to the scene, and a preliminary investigation found that a 29-year-old woman was suspected of leaving her child alone in the flat.