When you start negotiating haow many feet away you can be, how much time you can spend, etc. it becomes meaningless.
If the court finds that her actions were not criminal it can acquit her. If it finds that her actions, while in breach of law were not sufficiently dangerous to warrant serious punishment, it can suspend the sentence or give her probation.
It appears to me that the child was continuously supervised during the 30-ft walk to and from the car. Too crazy to comment on.
I remember way back when, when spoken or written words meant what they were intended to mean from the start. Today people abuse terms consistently, to make a particular thing or event seem better or worse than it was. This of course is a gross form of dishonesty and deceipt.
"Abandoned" is when a mother drops her baby off on a church stairway and screws off somewhere to parts unknown. "Abandoned" is when a young mother gives birth to her child in a public bathroom and throws it in the trash can. A mother who is standing only about 12 steps, (30 feet), from her daughter, who is in clear sight, safely locked in the car and close enough for the mother to give her any attention she may suddenly need, has not been abandoned.
This article shows just how far the state has gone to take the place of parents, and to step on peoples' rights in the name of "it's for the good of the chiiiildren". Stomping on the rights of good, responsible citizens always begins in the name of some alleged "good". Such as when Hitler began rounding up Jews because "they were destroying the economy". Or when Stalin began oppressing and murdering the supposed State's enemies in the name of "law and order". Americans are fast losing their rights and freedoms to the state and this article is a shining example of that.
Unfortunately, judging by the apparent intellectual superficiality of many Americans today it will not be very long before we all start looking around, wide eyed, and wondering just how the f--- we allowed our government to strip us of our beloved freedoms. Hell, I'm already wondering that, who knows what tomorrow is going to bring? Maybe they'll begin arresting mothers who are five steps away from their child as they walk around the car to open the trunk for the stroller.
The gun and badge compensate well for the tiny penis, though, don'tcha think?
Here is a link to an article about a New London man who was refused an interview with the police department there because he scored to high on their pre-employment test. That's right kids, police departments want ignorant buffoons who follow orders without questions. What a world.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E5D7103CF93AA2575AC0A96F958260
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The 36-year-old suburban mother is preparing to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer. If convicted, she could be sentenced to a year in jail and fined $2,500, even though child welfare workers found no credible evidence of abuse or neglect.
So this lady is arrested for what? There is no evidence?
So she should go though HELL because some CSO (community service officer) is a moron?
Very true, but this mother didn't abandon her child. She was 30 feet away.
This child was in a locked, alarmed vehicle 30 feet away, much more secure than a child 100 ft. away in her/his yard with a parent watching out the window.
Give me a break.