Big family forgets a little one at stop
A 6-year-old Sacramento boy with 13 brothers and sisters is back with his family after being left behind at a freeway rest stop for hours.
A Placer County sheriff’s spokesman said the boy’s parents didn’t report him missing for about four hours after a motorist found him alone Saturday afternoon.
Sheriff’s Lt. Jeffrey Ausnow said the boy was left at an Interstate 80 rest area near Colfax, about 50 miles east of Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
The boy told deputies he came out of the restroom after a day spent playing in the snow to find that the van carrying his parents and siblings had left.
The boy’s father contacted authorities after arriving home and said he thought the boy had been asleep in their van.
Ausnow says the parents will not face any charges.
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