-Corpus Christi police and Child Protective Services are investigating what led the parents of an 8-month-old girl to leave her inside their minivan Saturday night at a movie theater.

About 11:09 p.m. a person walking through the parking lot at the Westside movie theater in the 5200 block of Silverberry Drive near Greenwood Drive noticed the girl sleeping in a car seat inside a 1999 Toyota minivan, Lt. Chris Hooper said.

Officers called a locksmith service to get the baby out of the car, Hooper said. Officers noticed the girl was lethargic and called medics as a precaution. The girl was OK, Hooper said.
Hooper said officers worked with the theater's management to find the girl's parents.

As officers worked to get the girl out of the vehicle, the mother, 17, and the father, 29, walked out of the theater with a 4-year-old girl.

"The family is from Saudi Arabia and had an address in San Antonio. They told officers that in their country it is fine to leave a kid inside a vehicle," Hooper said. "But that is not the reason why officers did not make an arrest...

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