A barber rescued a young boy from a hot car after his father allegedly left him inside so he could go to the pub across the road.
Issa Khadem was in his shop at Yagoona, in south-west Sydney, when he heard the distressed three-year-old toddler locked inside the Holden Astra hatchback on the Hume Highway shortly after 3.30 on Saturday afternoon.
The boy’s 42-year-old father was allegedly across the road at the Hume Hotel as temperatures in the area climbed above 35C.
The three-year-old boy outside a shop after police smashed a car window to rescue him
Local area police smashed this driver’s side window to free the boy left inside on a hot day
Mr Khadem was unsure if he could legally smash a window and called the local Bankstown police, who did the job of breaking glass on the driver’s side to free the boy and treat him for dehydration.
‘He was crying, he had wet himself in the car, poor thing,’ he told Nine News on Sunday.
‘This is what happens in Yagoona when a bloke goes to the pub and leaves his kid in the car.’
Nine News showed footage of the father knocked out on the pavement of the pub, after another patron had allegedly punched him.
A father, 42, has been charged with leaving his three-year-old son inside this Holden Astra
The man charged with locking one son in a hot car and leaving another at home was at this pub
Issa Khadem was inside his barber shop at Yagoona when he heard a boy’s distressed cries
The TV report said police learned the father was supposed to have been caring for another son, aged two, when the boy’s mother arrived on the scene.
The younger son was found by police inside a nearby home, Nine News said.
The boy’s father was charged with leaving a child in a car causing distress, neglecting a child in his care and resisting arrest, police said.
He was refused bail on Sunday is due to appear at Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday.
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