Baby locked up in childcare centre

AUTHORITIES are investigating how a baby girl was left alone inside a locked childcare centre after it closed for the day.

A Sydney father, identified by the Sydney Morning Herald only as Bharat , said that when he went to pick up his one-year-old daughter Ankita from the Scribbles and Giggles childcare centre in Rydalmere in western Sydney at 6.04pm on May 26, he found the doors and windows locked and the lights switched off.

Bharat and his wife Gayatri called police and the centre's owner was tracked down.

"He arrived about 6.50pm. My wife was crying. We went into the centre and switched on the lights. We opened one door and there was no one inside. Then we noticed the door to the next room and there she was, lying in the dark," Bharat told the Herald.