[HokieMom]

I’m guessing substance abuse is involved. Poor little things.

[Bullish]

Heck, we walked all over town at that age and look how I turned out... Oh, wait...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

That’s mighty sad.

[bkopto]

... children were found walking by themselves along U.S. Route 50.

Now that's what I would call free-ranging kids.

[SkyDancer]

During the depression, people were selling or trying to sell their kids.

[Mears]

He thought they were outside playing-——with three duffle bags?

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[Bobalu]

This is horrifying :-(

[BraveMan]

"The grandmother now has custody of the three girls, police said."

Looks like the girls got what they wanted. I worry for Grandma . . .

[Raycpa]

I once came across a todler on a two way highway. I stopped and returned him to his grateful mother who didn’t realize he had gotten out. Never considered calling authorities.

[Sivad]

Morgana, I don’t want to hit this too hard but IMO it
would be helpful to post the location of incidents like
this if the article is not clear. Ever have someone send
you an old newspaper clipping that included no date or
publisher info? It can be frustrating. I researched it
because the US 50 that I know winds up in Sacramento which
is not that far away from me. Low and behold my research
took me to West Virginia, across the continent. Sure,
the point of the story is what happened and not where
it happened but more detail is always better than less.

[roadcat]

They used to make movies about kids doing stuff wandering away from home. Dennis the Menace, etc. Those movies were about adventure and fun. No one got arrested. Nowadays Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell would go to jail and Dennis would be taken from them. Sad state of affairs with the nanny state clamp-down on the rights parents used to have.