Police in Spain have arrested 30 people who allegedly abandoned their children, telling them to pose as lone child migrants so they would be taken into state care. Officials in the Balearic Islands said previously they were seeing a "new phenomenon" of parents from Africa flying to the holiday destination and dumping their youngsters.
A welfare council chief in Menorca said previously that two youngsters, including an 11-year-old, were left at a bus station before their mums and dads flew home. Another official in Ibiza said two children were recently left on the island by their parents and given instructions to head to a police station so they could receive refugee treatment. Police in the east coast province of Tarragona confirmed the horrifying practice appears to be far more well-established than imagined by confirming 30 arrests.