The man is filmed allegedly abandoning the tot to a makeshift bed on concrete in near-freezing conditions and now faces a child abuse rap
A DAD has been arrested after he was allegedly filmed dumping his five-year-old daughter outside a university in near-freezing conditions in the middle of the night so he could take drugs.
Adrian Justin Sanchez, 41, faces a charge of child abuse by abandonment after apparently being caught on camera leaving Acelynn.
He is said to have dumped the girl in her pyjamas on the steps of the Ogden Weber Applied Technology College in Utah, US, with a few blankets.
The footage over the two hours she was left alone shows her trying the building's door handle, then making a bed on the concrete and falling asleep.
She told police she yelled at her dad as he left but he kept walking away.
It was 5am on October 9 and the temperature was below 4C (39F).
“She said she got scared,” mum Gena Weaver told Fox 13 News.
“She was yelling, 'Daddy!' but no one was there.”
According to US reports, Sanchez had visitation rights and called his ex-partner saying he wanted his daughter to spend the night at a house he shared with his mum.
But his mother alleged he wanted to take the child to a nearby house to do drugs.
"Acelynn told me she didn't think anybody was ever going to find her and that she was never going to see me again," Weaver said.
A security guard found Acelynn at 7.30am, US news networks reported.
The girl told investigators she didn’t know why her father had left but he said he would be back, it is claimed.
Weaver said her daughter was traumatised by the events while she was staying with her dad for the weekend.
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