It's every parent's nightmare that their little one ends up being taken by a stranger and for one mum this was reality, after her child was mistakenly picked up from nursery by someone unknown.
A woman from the US, known only as Brianna, has taken to the internet to share the very awkward situation she found herself in a few years ago after offering to help out with some babysitting for an acquaintance. Brianna claims she went to the daycare to pick up the child for her pal and ended up taking the wrong kid home.
In a jaw-dropping TikTok posted under the name @briannadunkinfunk, she recalled how she'd arrived at the nursery and explained who she was there to collect but didn't know what the child looked like - as a result the staff made a big mistake.
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She said: "Goes to pick up an acquaintance's kid from daycare to help babysit until she can get off of work.
"Give them my name and the kid's. Goes to the room that matches their description, gives the kid's name again, picks up kid and leaves out the door I came through.
"Drives 20 minutes to their house, starts prepping a snack for kid, older sibling comes out of their room.
"Older kid says, 'that's not my little sibling...'"
She continues to share how she checked her phone to find loads of messages from her friend informing her she'd picked up the wrong child and that there was "slowmo terror" that followed this moment.
So Brianna quickly hopped back in the car with the little one and went to fix the mess - which she claims involved being questioned by police along the way and resulted in staff being fired by the daycare.
Brianna adds: "Checks phone to find text from mom that says 'you picked up the wrong kid.'
"The police call me.
"I bring the wrong kid back. Same names, wrong room. Everyone is angry. That makes sense. The police question me. People get fired.
"I have to give my testimony to CPS."
It turned out there had been two children at the daycare with the exact same unique name and the 'wrong' one had run up to Brianna when she entered the room. So it had been assumed that was who she was there to collect.
Her video went viral, being watched thousands of times and garnering hundreds of likes.
One person said: "That is 100% on the daycare! I have so many questions!"
Another replied: "I wanna know why the kid just went along with it and didn't question it, even going into the wrong house."
Someone else commented: "Are we laughing about it yet? Cause this is hilarious and I need your babysitter rates cause you’re hired."
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