Shocking moment woman leaves little girl alone tied to baby reins

A mother leaves her young daughter tethered all alone on the other side of a door outside a betting shop on a busy street before going in to place a bet. This was the shocking scene in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, captured by office workers who couldn't believe their eyes yesterday afternoon.
They saw the curly-haired girl, aged around four, being left tied by her reins outside a branch of Ladbrokes opposite their place of work for two to three minutes. She appeared to struggle to free herself before the woman, believed to be her mother, came out.
The woman had fed the reins underneath the door and gone in, still attached to the child who would not be allowed in because she's under 18. On her way out she untangled the girl and carried on her way as if leaving a young child on her own in a busy street as cars drove by was normal. In a video taken of the incident from the window of a building across the road, one of the insurance company workers exclaims: 'She's like a dog, oh my god she's like a dog!'