Family drives for 2 hours before realizing they left daughter at rest stop

A 3-year-old girl was mistakenly left behind by her parents
for more than two hours at a highway stop in southern
France.
“Another family was at the rest stop and noticed the girl was
alone for a while,” Clara Thomas, deputy prefect of the town
of Die, in the Drome region, said on French TV.
“They took care of her and called police to let them know."
The 3-year-old was only able to tell police officers what her
car looked like and said “Daddy’s car drove away,” according
to French media, which reported the incident on Sunday.
After driving more than 90 miles, the family heard on the
radio a message from police asking them to pick up their
daughter.
“They were obviously traumatized,” Thomas said, adding that
the parents, who had “no previously reported problems,”
were reunited with their daughter at a police station.
The family was heading south towards the coastal town of
Saint Raphael, authorities said. They reportedly asked their
other children, a boy and girl, if everything was okay, and no
one noticed the toddler was missing.
Local police said they would talk to the prosecutor in
Valence, the nearby town, to assess whether further action
should be taken.
How can you forget your child though and the other children
didn't notice their sister was missing? There may be
something more behind this or they may have truly
'forgotten' their 3 year old child.
ABC News

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