Man charged after child left for hours in car outside Calgary casino

A man has been charged after achild was left in an unheated vehicle outside a northeast Calgary casino for hours in the freezing cold.

Officers were called to Pure Casino Calgary on Meridian Road around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, for a seven-year-old child whohad gone inside the casino to look for his dad.

The temperature dipped as low as 24 C that night.

Police say casino employees took the seven-year-old boy to the officeand provided him with mittens. Attempts to page his father were unsuccessful.

Officers arrested the man when he returned to the casino to look for his son, and charged him with child abandonment.

Police say the child is now in the care of the province.