When I was a kid your mom could put you in the car and go shopping for 10 minutes 20 minutes, it was fine.
no one would call the police.
but these days, Busy Bodies will call the cops if they see that, sometimes just for 5 minutes, many times in order to derive the sense they care more than the other person.
that’s probably why she did this.
if they see kids walking home alone, some crazy bored people will call CPS.
it’s completely nuts, these days.
Nobody should EVER leave young children in a car alone.
From the article: "...two children – aged 2 and 5..."
If your mom left you alone in a car for 10 minutes, 20 minutes when you were 2-years old she'd be an idiot, chief.
You ever hear of child abductions?
Good God, the moronic posts that appear on Free Republic...
You got any kids, gaijin?
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.
Umm. Putting your kids in the trunk of the car and leaving them to suffocate is indefensible.