Posted on 05/28/2017 8:33:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eyewitnesses told officers that the woman locked her two children – aged 2 and 5 – in the trunk of her car before going to the local Walmart to shop. They heard the kids scratching and making other noises inside the car and guided them to reach for an emergency latch to free themselves.
Police: Utah woman locked her kids in trunk while she shopped https://t.co/c3hKBRu7M4 — Supra1BqTeam (@supra1Bqteam) May 27, 2017
The police were called to the scene and arrested the careless woman on her return to the parking lot. She remains in custody while her children have been taken away by social workers and handed over to a responsible party.
The reasons behind the woman’s actions remained unknown.
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Yes. She meant well. Was just a little “careless”
The Whitest of Trash
Did she not think that the kids would make noise in the trunk and let someone know they were in there?
I had 4 kids —all a year apart. When they went food shopping with me - (often) - I used 2 carts. Pushed one, pulled one. Never thought much about it. Of course the first stop in the store was to get a box of Animal Crackers to keep them occupied!
Well, consider there were different times and places. When I was that age in a small town of 6,000 souls, I doubt that anyone ever locked the car doors. Since virtually no one had air conditioning, the windows were always down in nice weather and kids sitting inside would have been as safe as kids playing in the park across the street, which I also remember doing while my mom was shopping. Maybe this just doesn’t fit into your view of the world, but it truly was a different place, and as I found out to my chagrin, every mom in town was de facto “your mom”. I can’t count the number of times I’d get busted by someone calling my mom to report one of my misdeeds, as most everyone knew everyone, or at least knew who their kids were and where they lived, since many people had lived there all their lives and there was little in or out-migration. And relatively few women with kids worked outside the home, so they had plenty of time to be nosy or observant, whichever you like ;-)
Ah, and “your town” of “6000 souls” never have migrants or people passing through, I take it. The entire town was a gated community?
Nice!
Not at all. The closest thing to “gates” we had were some stone pillars in front of the fanciest houses that you’d try to climb on as a kid and get yelled at to get off of.
Toss a dart at a map of Trump Red Country and you’d probably hit someplace similar. It was the 1950s and 60s, and as I said, mostly long-time residents with little reason for anyone to move there other than a handful each year to work in a local company. New kids in school were a rarity. I’m not saying it was perfect and to be honest, I couldn’t wait to get out of there and experience a bigger scale of life - but I’m saying that safety of kids whether in cars or left to roam the neighborhoods til dark was not a big concern for parents because the entire community looked out for kids - their own and otherwise - which meant we (the kids) really were under the same scrutiny everywhere as we were at home since the values held by essentially all parents were the same. If you heard of a parent letting their teenage kid dring a beer, for example, that was bigtime scandal. It was a mostly Republican area but the values of the Democrats were still very conservative and nothing like today.
I don’t deny the reality of today at all, I just take exception to broad statements that it was always the same way, because it wasn’t.
Nice deflection of my point you did there. Even in your 50’s “town” of “6000 souls” you had migrants and evil people passing through; sorry to break your reverie, they were there. So to say it was just fine and dandy to leave your cars unlocked, windows down, and kids playing in the back seat while Mom went shopping in her “Leave it to Beaver” pearls and dress is amusingly naïve.
There *were* abductions in the 50s, and 60s and children *were* snatched out of cars, houses, and even off the street. You can dreamily choose to think otherwise.
Jan. 3, 1960: Mary Lou Olson, 10, was last seen headed for a drugstore in National City. After a massive search, she was found dead nine days later, 13 miles south of Tijuana, when a farmer found her body in a gully. She had been raped and suffocated. Her killer was never found.
Now granted, National City’s population, in 1960 at 25,000 was a bit bigger than your suppositious town of 6000 souls, but evil could have even permeated Sheriff Taylor’s Mayberry - B&W television censors’ efforts notwithstanding.
He said when he was young, and during late 40s and 50s it was true.
My mother would leave us in the car with the windows open and we were 100% safe.
If any adult would have tried anything, he'd have been beat to death {by my 5' tall Italian mother}. Times change.
As I said on later posts, during the late 40s and 50s it wasn't "true". Kids got abducted and raped. I'm sorry. By the time your Italian mother got back to the car, you'd be gone and the migrant would be miles away with you in the back seat. It happened. Consider yourself blessed.
Remember the ‘baby on board’ car signs we used to see? They were sparked by the ‘pedigreed dogs on board.’ Someone must have objected that their baby was important as a dog!
Then they’d leave the sign up even when there was no baby in the car. For a while, some guy was going around bashing out the windows of unoccupied-but-baby-signed cars to ‘save the babies in there.’ You can’t make this stuff up. Or maybe you can.
That was a time when we played outside until dinner time, then back out again to play until dark, we walked to school by ourselves with other neighborhood kids, we walked to the grocery store three blocks away and home again with what mom needed to finish dinner, when ten year olds babysat other kids in the family while dad went bowling with mom to cheer him on.
Obviously, that was a time you never experienced and that's too bad. I'm sorry you missed it.
No parent wondered if their kids should see a movie, they were all rated G, there was one television station in town and if you didn't like Howdy Doody, you went back outside to play!
The infractions that got you in trouble in school were: talking and gum chewing! Sassing your teacher got you a swift trip to the principal's office, not for time out nor suspension but a good spanking where all the other kids got to hear you cry out loud!!!
Imagine!
Of course, no mother would ever have locked her kids in the trunk of her car to go shopping either.
We've come a long way baby but not in the right direction!
Wow! You knew my childhood! Amazing!
Hey, moron, I experienced a good childhood too. I played outside like you did as well. So don't patronize me.
My point is, idiot, that these things happened in the past as well.
God, the stupid people that post around here, and think they're oh so superior...
Umm. Putting your kids in the trunk of the car and leaving them to suffocate is indefensible.
Jan. 3, 1960: Mary Lou Olson, 10, was last seen headed for a drugstore in National City. After a massive search, she was found dead nine days later, 13 miles south of Tijuana, when a farmer found her body in a gully. She had been raped and suffocated. Her killer was never found.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
Those poor kids. I don’t know which is worse, their mother or the Department of Child Protective Services.
*Puts on Old Lady Hat*
When *I* was a kid, and Mom took us shopping for groceries or whatever, she’d say:
“We are going to this store to get X, Y & Z. YOU are not getting ANYTHING, so don’t even bother to ask. If you ASK, I will drop what I’m doing and we will go home...
...and then I WILL TELL YOUR FATHER why I didn’t come home with X, Y & Z!”
Worked like a charm.
However, it’s a whole different world these days...
Meth?
People forget. Our world has been subject to violence throughout time.
I’m guessing “Castillo” is her married name.
And how they forget! The "good old days" were not as good as people remember. Children got abducted.
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