A furious family has demanded answers after a little girl escaped from a child care centre and was found wandering in a public car park near a busy main road.
Two-year-old Maisie was left unsupervised for three minutes at Nido Early School in Werribee in Melbourne‘s west on Tuesday morning.
It’s understood the toddler escaped through a bathroom during routine maintenance and walked through an unlocked side gate into a busy car park shared with a medical centre, rehab and mental health facilities and several Covid testing centres. An unfenced waterway is also nearby.
A parent dropping her child off at the time luckily spotted Maisie wandering around and returned her to the centre.
Maisie’s family was left shaken by the harrowing ordeal which could have ended in tragedy.
‘Could you imagine if something had happened? She could have been hit by a car, I just can’t put it into words,’ grandfather Duncan Reed told Nine News.
‘I’m so disappointed by the way we have been treated, the way the children have been treated.
‘It’s not fair. Just tell the truth guys.’
It’s the second incident in five months a child has been found wandering outside on their own.
The family claims the centre initially informed parents Maisie was simply left unattended.
‘Unattended and getting out of the centre are two different things,’ Mr Reed said.
He dropped off Maisie earlier that morning as her mum Katrin is currently in hospital.
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