An Irish woman has been arrested in Majorca on suspicion of abandoning her child during a drunken holiday.
The 45-year-old was held at a hotel in Manacor in the east of the island after allegedly leaving her five-year-old daughter alone to go boozing.
Police said she drank from the moment she got up until she went to bed at night and the little girl ended up being cared for by other tourists.
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She is alleged to have continued drinking despite hotel staff stopping serving her alcohol by going to a supermarket opposite to buy beer.
A spokesman for Spain’s National Police, which made the arrest and was able to reunite the child with her father who travelled to Majorca from Ireland after being informed of the detention, said: "We have arrested an Irish woman aged 45 who was on holiday in Majorca for a crime of child abandonment.
"She left the youngster alone so she could drink alcohol.
"She began drinking the first day she arrived at a hotel in Manacor.
"She drank large amounts and consumed alcohol from the moment she got up to the moment she went to bed.
"She drank beer only and the little girl was cared for by the other tourists she had got to know in the same hotel who also had a little girl.
"Those holidaymakers ended up feeding her, putting sun cream on her and buying her arm bands for the pool as well as making sure she showered and was kept clean.
"Hotel staff stopped serving her but she went to a supermarket opposite to buy beer she would consume there."
The arrest was made last Tuesday after other guests decided to alert police, officers said.
The spokesman said: "She was arrested after being located in her hotel room and finally opening the door in a state of obvious drunkenness.
"The child was taken to a specialist centre until the following day when her father, who was in Ireland, arrived to take charge of her."
It was not clear today if the unnamed woman had appeared in court, or what the result of any court hearing had been.
It is expected social services in Ireland will be informed about the case by their Spanish counterparts.
Well-placed sources said the hotel where the woman was staying is in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca, which is in the municipality of Manacor.
It is the same resort where an Irish seven-year-old girl was pulled out of her hotel pool in June last year and rushed to hospital before dying two days later.
