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Iowa mother left 4 kids home alone while she went to Europe, police say
Fox ^ | 9/29/17 | Paulina Dedaj

Posted on 09/29/2017 8:27:39 AM PDT by workerbee

Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

While conducting a welfare check, police found Macke’s four children – two 12-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 7-year-old -- alone.

Police discovered that Macke left the U.S. a day earlier and wasn’t set to return until Oct. 1, the Register reported. She did not arrange any supervision for the children, authorities said.

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To: MrEdd; flaglady47; Maine Mariner
I'm shaking my head in disbelief at your post....

"Clausewitz joined the military at the age of twelve."

The military took care of Clausewitz, not the other way around.

"There isn't enough information here to condemn the parent."

There's plenty of information here to condemn this creepy, uncaring, unnatural "mother". It's called the FACTS. The 4 children were left stark alone, "mature" in your opinion....or not.

Leni

61 posted on 09/29/2017 7:47:35 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: morphing libertarian

you ned to change your handle to

‘love big government‘


62 posted on 09/29/2017 8:09:17 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: vooch

if you change to I love child abuse


63 posted on 09/29/2017 8:16:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

LOL

good comeback


64 posted on 09/29/2017 8:26:54 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: morphing libertarian

Did you actually just call out for government control over parenting? Did you get banned? You should have. I cannot think of a more disgusting thing to call the government to control. Maybe you should call out for government control of speech or press or religion or life in general. Oh that’s right the government pays to dispose of children in the womb but your dumb ignorant stupid Azz just called for government control over parenting.

To think where you posted that too. Absurd and disgusting.


65 posted on 09/29/2017 8:43:17 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Seruzawa

I agree. We make children immature for too long.


66 posted on 09/29/2017 8:45:20 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: wgmalabama

did you actually read what i posted. Do you support child abuse with no government oversite. WTH is wrong with you. Why haven’t you been banned.


67 posted on 09/29/2017 8:46:19 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: jjotto

How hard would it have been to at least have a relative or neighbor the kids could rely in when someone asked a lot of questions?


You have a good point on that, but this world is going crazy with police control, a policeman for every act
of your life.

Then we wonder why so many people don`t have any responsibility.


68 posted on 09/30/2017 9:38:28 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: morphing libertarian

No one said anything about child abuse except you, yeah don`t abuse them abort them, kill them so you don`t have to teach them to take care of them selves.

If you love something set it free, if it does not come back and lick your hand hunt it down and kill it.

Government is very good with that kind of caring.


69 posted on 09/30/2017 9:47:37 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: ravenwolf

lol this entire thread is about abuse abandoning kids under 14 IS abuse by definition


70 posted on 09/30/2017 9:49:57 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: workerbee

I do know a woman who leaves pre-teen kids alone, unsupervised, for 10 days and leaves the country is not someone most people would consider a responsible parent.


That is probably right but we do not not have the right to tell some one else how to raise their children.


71 posted on 09/30/2017 9:53:25 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: cornfedcowboy

I guess the government does not consider any one under a certain age to be the people. if a child has a gun or not should be up to the parent.


72 posted on 09/30/2017 9:57:24 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yeah, they need protection from the dam socialists and so do we all.


73 posted on 09/30/2017 10:00:18 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: ravenwolf

I’ve heard if you leave your kids alone and go to Europe, roving gangs of socialists come to your house to brainwash them. Some set up the TV to broadcast socialist messages 24-7. This is why parent can’t leave young kids for more than a few hours.


74 posted on 09/30/2017 10:02:15 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: MinuteGal

Have you ever read the constitution and the bill of rights? do you know that freedom was the issue?

Most of our founders was aware that the socialists and other sobs in this country would eventually be picking freedom apart little by little but they would probably turn over in their graves if they knew about parental policing.


75 posted on 09/30/2017 10:08:05 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: morphing libertarian

lol this entire thread is about abuse abandoning kids under 14 IS abuse by definition


Ok, i will have to take your word for that.
But i believe if the law makers actually believed in the constitution they are supposed to be serving there would be a lot of laws that would not be on the books.

And there would be no place for Government peaking toms and uncle toms.


76 posted on 09/30/2017 10:16:33 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: morphing libertarian

This is why parent can’t leave young kids for more than a few hours.


Ha, ha If the law had of been made by the take back America people i could believe it but i think these socialists are most likely wearing uniforms and bages.


77 posted on 09/30/2017 10:21:31 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: ravenwolf

The concept most people agree on is that children cannot protect themselves from abusive adults like parents who control their lives. That means there will be laws. Those laws get enforced usually when someone reports something not because the state is being peeping Tom. Even Cal doesn’t charge enough taxes for that.

When you leave your kids to go on vacation to another continent, and they are under 14, that is abuse by definition.


78 posted on 09/30/2017 10:23:04 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yes I read where you advocated the government licensing people to become parents and then monitoring whether they me the governments ideals or requirements of parenting. I cannot disagree more with that statement of yours. Was this paticular parent guilty of abandonment and/abuse, it appears yes. you called out for the government I call out for the father the grandparents the aunts and uncles.


79 posted on 09/30/2017 12:27:24 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: wgmalabama

Never said anything like that.


80 posted on 09/30/2017 3:36:09 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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