A mother has unlocked a new fear for parents everywhere.
On New Year’s Eve, a taxi driver sped off with Jenna’s nine-year-old son, Oscar, asleep in the back seat.
Jenna, her husband and their two children had booked the taxi just after midnight to head home after the festivities.
What unfolded was every parent’s worst nightmare.
“He literally just sped away”
Jenna is now issuing a warning, posting a TikTok about the horrific incident.
She explained that her husband put Oscar in the car first before going into the passenger seat.
“That was the first mistake… they’ll never get in a car again without us there first.”
Jenna and her daughter were not far behind, bidding a final farewell to the friends they had spent the evening with.
Her husband told the driver that they had more passengers coming and he would not be late – a reasonable request.
But the driver ignored him.
“So he closed the cab door, walked around the cab … and he looked down the road to see where I was,” she recounted.
“During this time [the driver] it literally just went away like that fast.”
Oscar, exhausted from New Year’s celebrations, had no idea he was leaving his parents.
“I just heard all this screaming and in my head I thought the taxi had gone without, just without any of us,” Jenna said.
“So I went to the back of the car and I saw my partner literally following this car.”
That’s when the panic begins.
“He’s being kidnapped!”
Desperate, she tried to call the driver’s number – the one he had used to let her know he was out – but in her panic, she accidentally called someone else.
Oscar woke up in the middle of the chaos, immediately realizing that something was wrong.
“He told the driver, he said ‘I’m sorry, you left my parents,'” she explained.
With her husband still following the car, the driver finally stopped, allowing her to open the door and fish his son to safety.
Parents did not hold their anger.
Jenna scolded the driver, “What the hell are you doing? You just left with a baby in the car!”
As for regret – there wasn’t much.
“He didn’t give much of an explanation as to why he left,” Jenna said.
The whole situation was traumatic for everyone involved.
“My little girl is seven years old and she was just screaming after this taxi,” she said.
“She was going, my brother Oscar. He is being kidnapped. He’s being kidnapped!’”
Jenna’s TikTok comments section was flooded with support and outrage.
“I would have dragged the driver over,” read one.
Another said: “I can’t imagine how petrified you all were.”
“That never crossed my mind, I’ll make sure I’m in the car first… that’s awful,” added a third.
Jenna has since lodged a complaint with the taxi company and is seeking further action. While she hopes it was an honest mistake, she finds it hard to believe.
“The main thing is that everyone is safe,” she concluded.
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