Posted on 07/19/2024 12:59:01 PM PDT by Morgana
A mother has been left outraged after a car salesman in Texas came and took her daughter with Down syndrome to a dealership to buy a Honda.
Angie Martin, a working mother of seven, was shocked to come home on Tuesday night and not see Hope Martin.
She was told a sales person had picked up her disabled daughter and taken her to All-Star Honda to look at cars.
'My heart’s beating faster just thinking about it. I got a text from her father, and he was like, "I got a couple texts from someone,"' Angie told KTAB.
Hope, who has a desire to drive, is said to have called the dealership multiple times and said she wanted to buy a car.
Angie has discussed driving with her daughter but told her the decision is not up to her but state motor vehicle institutions.
Hope, 27, then went out to try and buy a car but her mother is furious the salesman did not recognize her daughter is vulnerable.
'I was so angry that this had happened and that a strange man would have the audacity to come and take my daughter, who obviously is cognitively impaired, out of my home without my consent, let alone to do something so drastic,' Angie.
But she said she holds the management at the dealership mainly responsible rather than the salesman.
'You and I have inhibitions and limits and when we start to stray outside of them, we’re aware of it,' she said.
'Hope doesn’t have those. I provide that externally for her…I’m always trying to thread that needle between her rights as a human being and her safety.'
All Star Honda vice president Nicholas Varela said it is not uncommon for people at the dealership to provide transport to potential clients.
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He didn’t have to come to the house, pick her up, and take her off. It wouldn’t have taken much time to recognize that something was wrong.
Does she have a driver’s license (I looked it up and people with Down syndrome can be licensed to drive)? Would the dealership be in legal trouble if the refused to sell?
Way too many details left out...
Did daughter have a license? Does she have insurance? How did she pay for it?
This sounds like Mom is looking for a third party to blame.
The mother is 100% at fault.
If she has guardianship over a person who is too incompetent to make decisions, then that person should not be left at home alone.
In this case, the mother should be charged with neglect or abandonment.
I’m not too sure about mama’s mental abilities putting her daughter out there for any and all pervs. Mama had to have been the one to call the msm out to show the world their home, their last name, what mama and daughter and the rest of the family looks like and hey, pervs, her daughter will walk out the door with anyone.
Mom is now on international media saying. Sure, my daughter is obviously cognitively impaired, but I leave her alone unattended.
It doesn’t matter who is to “blame” here. The daughter is not competent to contract and so no valid contract was formed. Period. The dealer can come collect his car and return any money that was paid.
Some Downs kids are smart enough to hold jobs and own things. Does she have a license?
This story is not nearly as clear cut and simple as the headline suggests.
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What a salesman who goes that extra mile to make that sale.
“The dealer can come collect his car and return any money that was paid.”
No one purchased a car and there was no financial transaction.
This is just a story about a Texas mother leaving her Downs Syndrome child unattended for an extended amount of time, and outing herself as being less competant than her daughter.
Surprised the dealership was in Abilene ... was thinking Austin or Houston. Salesman was probably trying to unload one of those hail damaged Hondas on an unsuspecting client.
“What a salesman who goes that extra mile to make that sale.”
I bet he pitched the extended warrantee and the clear coat.
That's ridiculous. My fifteen years old doesn't have the competence to make adult decisions such as buying a car but he can be left home alone unsupervised, as can plenty of adults with Downs Syndrome.
In this case, the mother states that her daughter is “obviously cognitively impaired”, but believes her daughter to be competant enough to have a phone to make contact with anyone on the planet, and competant enough to be left at home unattended for extended amounts of time.
So which is it, is the daughter so cognitively impaired that she cannot make decisions, or is she responsible enough to be left unattended all day with a device that allows her to communicate with anyone?
BTW-At least in Texas, your 15 year-old cannot go to a dealership and purchase a car.
There are all sorts of level of wrong in your comment. I have a mentally retarded sister. She can do fine at home by herself for several hours, but cant drive, do her own laundry, remember to bath, or make her own food.
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