Posted on 11/19/2016 1:28:39 PM PST by rickmichaels
MINNEAPOLIS — Police say a woman has been arrested after trying to hang a 16-month-old boy at a Minneapolis day care and then threatening to jump from a freeway overpass.
Assistant Police Chief Kris Arneson says a parent arriving at the day care Friday rescued the boy, and that he is “doing fine.”
Arneson says the woman fled in a gold minivan, ran over a pedestrian and struck a bicyclist. Arneson says the pedestrian and bicyclist will survive.
The woman later went to the Park Ave. overpass above Interstate 94 and threatened to jump, but police and passers-by stopped her. Authorities have identified the suspect as Nataliia M. Karia, 42, who is the operator of Uptown Daycare.
The Star Tribune reports that police don’t know a motive.
"I am a licensed childcare provider, college educated mom who has full time openings at my house to care for your child, " the Facebook page for the Uptown Daycare states. "I am a trained in first aid and CPR. I have a luxury home with a large fenced yard just steps away from the Lake of the Isles that has been remodeled for the safety of your child."
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This fuels the anxiety of moms searching for reliable daycare. I don’t blame mothers who are fearful of daycare. Our economy lacks family wage jobs and forces even mothers who wish to be full time moms out into the workforce.
There’s lots of loons in the Cities
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Every new parents’ worst nightmare.
So glad the baby is okay, and the kooky lady is locked up.
“college educated “
Why are those words more and more beginning to take on a meaning of “psychotic and unstable lunatic”?
Drugs are a wonderful thing....until you try to hang a kid.
The woman later went to the Park Ave. overpass above Interstate 94 and threatened to jump, but police and passers-by stopped her.
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They shouldn’t have.
When I worked, my kids were little.
I was extremely lucky my mom lived nearby.
I used to pay her to watch my kids instead of using daycare.
Children are far too precious to trust to total strangers.
I used to get flak from co workers for refusing to put them in pre school.
Mom is the best source of daycare for her kidlings. It may suck economically but it can be done. My wife did it, bless her soul. And we have two superior adults who have excelled in their respective fields because of it.
Day care is for...well...let's just leave it at that. Daycare is daycare.
And, maybe, if we had been lucky, you would have been the one driving down the interstate when she went through your windshield after the jump.
Too many innocent folks have been killed by selfish suiciders (yes, a redundant statement) jumping from overpasses for me to be amused by your comment.
My husband and I decided rather than paying someone to mess-up our kids, I would stay at home and do it! ;-)
We take care of our two grandsons four days a week. It can be hard, but it brings joy to me everyday. Yesterday, the oldest was singing a song about the months of the year. Can’t imagine a more beautiful sight and sound.
Nothing wrong with that.
:)
I resemble that remark!
Grandparents are the best!
We had choir practice this morning at my co-leader’s house because she was taking care of her two granddaughters. Her daughter (their mother) is a very nice woman, but she and her husband both work a lot of hours, and the little girls are very bonded with their grandparents.
Now that's funny right there. I'm guessing they will turn out just fine. :)
My homeschooling friends and I say that kind of thing all the time. “We can mess up our kids with much less cost and effort!”
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