Video: Father pawns two-year-old daughter at restaurant. Here's why

China - He told the owner he would redeem the child the next day.

A viral video has emerged where a father in China left his two-year-old daughter at a restaurant because he didn't have enough money to pay for a meal. The man realised he was falling short of 1 yuan after he finished eating a bowl of noodles costing 6 yuan, according to Chinese reports quoted in Daily Mail. He decided to leave his daughter at the restaurant and told the owner he would 'redeem' the child the next day.
Surveillance footage in the restaurant was released by Southern Television Guangdong and shows the little girl crying when her father turns around to leave. As the girl runs towards her father, he pushed her into the shop. "I am going to leave her here as a pawn. I'll come back tomorrow with cash and get her," the man told a restaurant staff member.

 
The girl, who was crying inconsolably seeing her father leave, was comforted by the staff members who later called the police as the man didn't turn up for hours.
"We sat the girl down in the kitchen and gave her a bottle of soy milk," the restaurant owner said. However, several hours later the man returned to the restaurant with the money but was shocked to find his daughter was taken away by police. He blasted the restaurant owner for calling the police.
"The man insisted he wasn't abandoning his daughter and was just trying to get some cash. But it took him a long time to return to the restaurant because his electric scooter ran out of battery and he had to charge it," officer Huang Zhenyu of the Shunde district police said. Later the man was let off by police with a stern warning.