British Couple Arrested in Spain After Baby 'Tests Positive for Cocaine'
The six-month-old tested positive for cocaine, and the children were placed under Andalusian government protection after police found them alone in a hotel room.
- On Thursday, National Police arrested a British couple, 41 and 28, for allegedly abandoning their three young children at the Holiday World Resort in Benalmádena to go out partying.
- Staff alerted police after finding two children in hotel common areas, while the eldest, just four years old, was left to care for his siblings in a room described as in 'considerable disarray'.
- The youngest child, just six months old, tested positive for cocaine after receiving medical attention at Malaga's Materno Infantil Hospital, according to local media reports.
- Placing the children with a foster family, the Andalusian Regional Government's Child Protection Service has assumed temporary care while parents face potential prison sentences of 1 to 4 years for abandonment.
- A specialized National Police branch, the Family and Women's Assistance Unit , is leading the ongoing investigation into the alleged abandonment in the Torremolinos-Benalmádena area.
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The British couple who left their three minor children in a hotel in the town of Benalmadena alone, of whom two of them — one of them a baby — would have been positive for cocaine, has been sentenced to one year and four months in prison by a court in Malaga for the commission of a crime of abandonment.The sentence has been handed down in accordance with the British parents, who have admitted a one-year and four-month prison sentence and the cou…
A couple were arrested in Spain for leaving their three children, including two babies, alone in a hotel. The 41-year-old man and the 28-year-old woman had left the room to party.
The children, six months old, one year old and four years old, were neglected in a hotel in Benalmádena and are now under the tutelage of the Junta de Andalucía until their transfer to the United Kingdom
The youngest child, a six-month-old baby, has been reportedly tested positive for cocaine during medical examinations.
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