Teenager deliberately left at hotel

UK holidaymakers in Majorca get suspended jail sentence for abandoning son
Unnamed pair had pleaded guilty to leaving their teenage son in a hotel after he refused to go to airport

A British couple have been handed a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to abandoning their teenage son in Majorca and attempting to fly home without him.

The unnamed pair were arrested as they tried to board a plane at Palma airport on Wednesday after leaving their 17-year-old son at a hotel when he refused to join them.

He was left at the Bellevue Hotel Club in Alcúdia after refusing to board a bus to the airport with his parents and three younger siblings, a court in Inca heard.

The parents pleaded guilty to child abandonment and were handed an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for one year, during a fast-track hearing on Thursday.

“The accused were preparing to take a bus around 9am on Wednesday from their hotel, where they had been on holiday, to the airport for a return flight to the UK with the rest of their family,” a ruling from the court said.

“When the eldest of their children refused to return home, the accused decided to continue the trip home and got on the bus.

“Their son was left at the hotel despite the fact that he had no accommodation there and that they hadn’t entrusted his care to an adult or given him the means with which to look after himself.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/04/uk-holidaymakers-majorca-spared-jail-abandoning-son

Can I guess we’ve all been there at some point…?