12-year-old boy steals parent’s credit card and flies to Bali

Team Udayavani, Apr 24, 2018, 4:35 PM IST

Sydney: A 12-year-old boy flew alone to the Indonesian island of Bali and spent four days at a resort utilizing his parent’s credit card. 

The boy fled from his Sydney home after a fight with his mom, flying initially toward the Western Australian city of Perth on Jetstar airline and afterward on to Bali.

“He simply doesn’t care for the word ‘no’, and that is the thing that I got, a kid in Indonesia,” his mom, Emma, told the media late Monday. 

The family had gone by Bali on vacation and Emmaher son had already tried to book flights there on his own but had been knocked back by airlines because he did not have a letter from her.

“We shouted, we asked for help (from Australian authorities) for a week,” Emma included. 

The kid, who “needed to go on an adventure”, said he was told via airline staff this time he didn’t require authorization from his parents to board the flights. 

He spent four days in Bali, where he said he booked a resort, hired a scooter and drank beer before a friend cautioned his mom to a geotagged video of himself playing in a swimming pool. 

In Bali, he checked in to the All Seasons hotel, telling staff he was waiting for his sister to arrive. The trip costed his parents Aus$8,000 (US$6,100). 

The Australian Federal Police said they were first informed that the boy may attempted to leave the nation on March 8, preceding being told he may be in Bali on March 17. The kid was found by Indonesian police the next day. 

His parents at that point traveled to Bali to take him home.