Leaving kids in the car is ’unacceptable’, says ISPCC

LEAVING children alone in cars is unacceptable, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said yesterday amid reports of a growing number of parents leaving their children in the car while they go shopping.

It is not unusual for shopping centre security personnel to find babies and toddlers left alone in cars once or twice a week.

One security guard attached to a busy shopping centre in Dublin said his colleagues found children left alone in five or six cars every day.