Police are hunting for the parents of a baby found locked inside a hotel safe.
The family is believed
to have alerted staff that their child had been locked inside the safe at
around 10am on Tuesday morning.
A maintenance worker
arrived and freed the infant, who was "alert and crying", according
to police.
But the couple left the
Howard Johnson Hotel near Niagara Falls before officers were notified of the
incident.
Police are now trying
to trace the family to determine the child's welfare and how the baby ended up
locked inside the safe.
Detective Constable
Amanda Sanders, of Niagara regional police's child abuse unit, said: "At
this point we don't know if it's anything more than a preventable
accident."
The infant is believed
to be less a year old and small enough to fit inside the safe, which measures
around 50cm x 35cm x 43cm.
The family is from the
Brooklyn area of New York and believed to be travelling in a 2015 grey Ford
van, with the license plate B31EUB.
Niagara regional police
spokesman Scott Kraushar said US border services have been notified about the
incident and the van has not crossed back into America.
Anyone who sees the van
is asked to contact police at 905-688-4111 x4320.
-UK Mirror
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