Colorado Cops Find Parents of Child Alone at Restaurant 'Thanks to Facebook'
A young child was found alone at an Aurora, Colorado, restaurant.
— -- A Colorado police department is crediting Facebook for helping to find the parents of a young girl who was unattended at a restaurant.
On Sunday afternoon, a small child approximately 2 years of age, with her hair in pony tails, wearing a red Minnie Mouse shirt, shoeless, sockless and speaking only Spanish, was found alone at the Los Toritos Restaurant 2 in Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department Facebook page.
No missing child report had been made to local authorities, according to police, so the Aurora Police Department shared the girl's photo and description to its Facebook and Twitter accounts. The police said the child was safe and in the custody of social services.
On Sunday night, the police said the child's parents had been found, and the department gave a shout-out to social media for making it happen.
The Aurora Police wrote on its own Facebook page, "Thanks to Facebook the parents of the little girl who was left at the Los Toritos Restaurant have been located and are being interviewed by investigators. Thanks for all of the shares and tips."
Among the tips on the police page were people attempting to identify the girl and her parents from other pictures on the Internet.
However, a police spokeswoman said the parents, themselves, saw the post and reclaimed their child.
"It was a miscommunication between the adults that the [child] was left behind," Diana Cooley of the Aurora Police Department told ABC News today via email. "They realized through the sharing of the Facebook post that she was not [with] who she was supposed to be with. They contacted PD after they saw post. No charges. We are not releasing the identity of the individuals."
