A woman left her 16-month-old daughter alone in an Ibis hotel room overnight and was arrested for child neglect when she returned at 2.30am with a man . A mother who left her 16-month-old daughter alone in a hotel room while she went for a night out with a friend has been given a police caution for neglect . The Mexican woman left the Ibis hotel at around 7.30pm when she went to meet a friend and left her child alone until she returned at about 2.30am with a man , the family division of the High Court in London heard . Staff heard the little girl , realised that she was alone and called police . The woman was arrested when she returned to the Ibis , and accepted a caution by police . Her daughter was taken into police protection . Details of the case were revealed as a judge made a ruling on a family court dispute between the parents of the young girl . Mr Justice Peter Jackson was told that the woman had become involved in a legal fight with the little girl 's English father - her estranged husband - who was also in his early 30s . He said he had been asked to make decisions on the latest stage of that litigation at a family court hearing . The judge said the woman and the child , now two , had been in England visiting the man at the time of the hotel incident last year . He did not say where the hotel was . Mr Justice Jackson said the little girl had been taken into police protection following her mother 's arrest - and placed with her father . A judge had subsequently barred the woman from removing the child from the jurisdiction of England and Wales following an application by the father , Mr Justice Jackson was told . Mr Justice Jackson said he had become involved after the woman asked to be allowed to take the little girl back to Mexico . The family division of the High Court heard details of the neglect as a judge refused an application by the girl 's mother , who is from Mexico , to take her back to the country . She is currently living with her father . He ruled against her after analysing issues relating to the toddler 's 'habitual residence ' . The judge concluded that the little girl had not been wrongfully retained in England by the father under the terms of an international legal convention . He was told that the couple had met in Mexico six years ago after the father travelled abroad for work . The judge said the family could not be identified .
Mother left her daughter overnight in an Ibis hotel while she went out . She returned to hotel at 2.30am with a man and was arrested for neglect . The Mexican woman , in her 30s , accepted a caution from police for offence . Child was taken into police protection and then placed with her father . Comment: Mother applied to take child back but Mr Justice Jackson ruled against her .