Barefoot Siblings Wandering the Streets... Found Their Parents Thanks to Police and Neighbors

Jeonnam Yeongam Police Station Investigates Nearby Shop Owners
Finds Shop Owner Who Knows Parents and Returns Children Home

A young brother and sister wandering the streets in their underwear were returned to their parents thanks to the care of neighbors and the police.

According to Yeongam Police Station in Jeonnam on the 2nd, a convenience store owner reported to the 112 emergency call center around 1 p.m. the previous day that two children were wandering on the road in the downtown area of Samho-eup, Yeongam-gun.

Barefoot young siblings wandering on the road. Photo by Yonhap News Agency, provided by Jan-nim Yeongam Police Station

When the police arrived, the 4-year-old girl was wearing only underwear, and the 2-year-old boy was wearing only a diaper. They were not wearing shoes or socks either.

The police checked the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of the surrounding streets but could not determine which house the children had come from. The police decided to protect the children at the local police substation and began inquiries with nearby store owners.

Later, the police found a store owner who knew the children’s parents and contacted the guardian to send the children back home.

The children’s parents were a migrant worker couple from Cambodia. It was confirmed that while the mother briefly went out to meet a neighbor in front of the house, the children followed her outside and got lost.

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