Father forgets 1-year-old in MBTA parking lot, calls 911 from train
Police scrambled to a Quincy parking lot Wednesday morning after a father left his 1-year-old baby in his SUV.
The man had boarded the Red Line at North Quincy station without his child at 7:45 a.m., according to Quincy police. The frantic dad called 911 at 8:20 a.m. while he was on a train headed back to the station. A dispatcher kept him on the phone as officers raced to the parking lot, finding the baby unharmed at 8:27 a.m.
The father will not be charged in the incident, according to MBTA Transit police.
Audio of the 911 call was posted on YouTube by The Patriot Ledger.
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The father told WCVB that he had taken his older child to school and then forgot to take the 1-year-old to a day-care center.
“Like many parents, I have a very repetitive morning procedure that involves two day care dropoffs and a Red Line ride,’’ he told WCVB. “The baby had fallen asleep in the child seat, and I went into autopilot.’’
He said it was one of the worst days of his life.
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