18-month-old baby runs away from day care in Brazil and goes to work with her mother

Um 18 months baby fled from a day care center and walked alone for about 50 meters until arriving at the place of the mother of work, in the city of Armço do Norte, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, last Friday. 

The baby walked down the street completely alone, and when he got to the scene, he knocked on the glass door of the establishment and was greeted by an employee. 

“Our receptionist arrives with him in her lap and right away I panicked and asked ‘did he fall? What happened?’. And she said ‘he is alone’,” Naiara Vieira, the baby’s mother, told G1.

The woman stressed that the street “is very busy” and there go several vehicles, from cars to tractors. “When I realized the situation, I was terrified,” she said.

The child's route was recorded by street surveillance cameras. In the images, available below, you can see the boy walking alone and at some point falling. However, he stood up alone and followed the way to his mother's work.

Naiara Vieira told her that she left her son in day care at 7:20 and that the child left the place at 8:45. The boy was not injured, but the mother decided to press charges with the Civil Police, considering that “a tragedy could have happened”. 

The Municipal Department of Education and Sport has already indicated that it has asked for an inquiry to “clear the whole situation”.