Thursday morning, August 5th. Colonia Joaquín Colombres in the capital of PueblaMexico.

Neighbors hear noises above the December 25th away. It’s dark. Also. They look out of their windows and see only a group of people arranging cardboard. Nothing more.

But the unpleasant surprise came the next day. In the morning they went to the cash desks and saw an old woman in pajamas, lying on the blankets and covered, from the waist down, with another dark brown blanket.

what happened to the grandmother

Immediately, faced with the impact of this painful image, people in the area communicated with the emergency services. For this reason, according to Publimetro de México, the staff of the municipal system quickly went to the site.

There, they assessed the condition of the grandmother who would be abandoned by her family memberswhose it is his identity is unknown. In fact, the woman herself doesn’t know how to tell who I am.

Then they transferred it to theirs installations to welcome her in a better situation and provide her with the necessary assistance according to her condition and age.

For their part, the aforementioned media detailed, the neighbors asked the authorities open an investigation clarify the fact and find those responsible for the abandonment of an elderly person e punish them legally.

Abandonment of grandparents: the most aberrant cases

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. known as “abandonment of grandparents”families around the world leave their elderly relatives stranded every year.

This is another example. A British man was jailed in 2018 after an American patient with dementia was flown to the UK and abandoned in a parking lotpublic The sun.

At the time, the case baffled authorities and raised a global alarm when Roger Curryfrom 76 years oldwas found outside a bus station in Hereford no ID and I didn’t remember his name.

In this case, Simon Hayes, 53, became the first person in Britain to be imprisoned for “abandoning his grandfather”.

but the episode not uncommon in the world.

In Japan, this practice is known as “ubasuto”and it is so common that some charities have even created a “senior mailbox”.

Service it allows poor families to abandon their elderly relatives with charities where, instead, they are assigned to a retirement home, highlighted the English medium.

And in the United States, the number also has an impact. Of 100,000 grandparents are abandoned every year for his family.