He could have called the police or even 911, even anonymously.
The guy was a head in the sand idiot and deserves to feel guilty for not making a simple anonymous phone call.
That child must have cried for 2 days or more before dying of dehydration
His mother was a junkie, how many times do you think that kid wailed for attention when she was out scoring drugs? Or after she passed out from them or was passed out from a bender on them? The cops should have been called long before she kicked off, and you cry about after? PLEASE!
Our firstborn developed colic and would cry a lot, no matter what we did. Sometimes going for short drives in the minivan would help. I am glad that the cops weren’t called every time he would cry. But we knew our neighbors and they knew us, so there was no suspicion of anything wrong.
Let the baby cry. Swatting (the wrongful calling of 911) leads to death too. Don’t get knee-jerky on us FRiend.
He could have called the police or even 911, even anonymously.....Can’t be done anonymously. Just two weeks ago I saw the house across the alley from me in subzero temps at 0600 hrs with the door swinging in the wind. I called 911, gave the address for the people across the alley and explained the mother is 90 something yrs. old, her son ( VN deserter) who is blind and told them something is wrong. They asked “Mr. XXX why don’t YOU go over to see if everything is OK?” I said it was because I used to mow her lawn every summer and she called the cops on me and said I was going to rape her. The cop came up to me while I was mowing and said he had a complaint and explained to me. I said “Right, assh*le. I’ve always had my lawnmower with me when I rape somebody.” No Social Services agency would take any interest in this woman or son until they found out they had a house temperature of 35 degrees since the day before. Now they have some kind of caretaker coming to see over them.
Going public with his failure to take even anonymous action is an attempt to assuage what must be a terrible personal guilt ... It won’t.
Not so simple - crying babies and their mothers are an extremely heavily protected class in this country. I did not live anywhere near a slum, but one time I finally called the cops after a baby kept screaming its guts out (not "crying," this sounded like the kid was being murdered), only to stop, eventually, by a "thump" against the wall. This went on for five solid MONTHS, since my complex refused to acknowledge a "crying" baby as an annoyance. Nevertheless, one night, after enduring many hours of this madness, I got fed up and reported it to the police.
So you're thinking "child protective services" or something like that? Don't make me laugh.
Instead, I shortly had two cops at MY door giving me the third degree, dismissing everything I told them, and making it extremely clear that they considered ME the problem for my lack of "tolerance," and were HIGHLY irritated with me. And any speculations I had having to with possible drug activity or child abuse by the parents was considered to be virtual slander on my part. And oh yeah, lemme see your ID.
Since then, my attitude is screw it. I feel very much for these children, but there is simply nothing that can be done to help them. It seems the government wants a new generation of people as totally messed up as possible, and this is one way they're achieving that goal. And do you know what their justification is? That it's "for the children." Which is technically correct, it IS for the children, just not in the way you think.