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Posted on 09/05/2010 10:52:52 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
CHARLESTON — A Charleston man is charged with unlawful neglect after deputies say one of his twin daughters walked out of their home and fell into a pond while he slept.
Authorities responded to 2903 Doncaster Drive at 6:13 p.m. Thursday and found one of the 1-year-old girls neck deep in a pond behind the house. A dog was in the water with her, preventing the girl from going under, a Charleston County Sheriff’s Office incident report said.
Deputies charged Adam S. Gray, 33, with unlawful neglect by a custodian after firefighters pulled the girl from the pond and took her to a local hospital to be evaluated, the report said.
A Charleston police officer entered the house through an unlocked back door and found Gray asleep in bed. The officer was able to wake him up after several attempts, the report said.
Gray told officers he put the sleeping children inside their cribs about 5 p.m. and closed the door to their upstairs bedroom before going to his room next to it and falling asleep. He said he usually could hear the girls if they attempted to go down the stairs but didn’t this time, the report said.
Police say the twins were able to push down a gate at the edge of the stairwell and then walk downstairs and out the back door, when one of them fell into the pond. A neighbor heard the girl’s playful voice and called police.
The mother took custody of the children.
Gray does not have any felony convictions in South Carolina, according to a State Law Enforcement Division criminal record check.
A magistrate set Gray’s bail at $10,000 Friday.
It could be a Ridgeback (liver nose). Possibly ridgeless, but it’s hard to tell.
Then I apologize.
If you were surprised by the capabilities of two toddlers you must have had very careful parents and if you have children of your own who have survived to adulthood, your wife is a saint.
Whoever wrapped that little kid in duct tape in an attempt at humour is not fit to be in charge of a child and should serve time in jail.
I am with you this is more than stupid legal crap run amok. It is like the days when every week we heard that day care centers are run by pedophiles - only to find false claims. Now we are charging parents for being human - this is not even being bad but being human...sleeping.
according to another story its a chocolate lab, the the twins are 3.
Our daughter, on the other hand, was just the opposite. She would push a chair up to the door lock and open it. We added another lock waaaaay up at the top of the door, out of reach. We even nicknamed her "Trouble".
They grew up and changed roles...he, the rule breaker (:D) and she, the one who didn't want to get in trouble at all....ever!
They are both awesome!
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The thing that might be the givaway in the story is the statement that it took the cops several tries to wake up the father. So there may be more than reported.
As the story stands, it seems wrong.
Also, you know there are libs that have no problem with this. Leftists love to make themselves so compassionate, but when you run into their legal types they are the most unforgiving persons on earth.
Looks like a pinscher mix.
They're in for it. I have no trouble believing that the little ones really did escape on their own.
Do you know any parents of twins? Ask 'em, and they'll tell you that twins are 4 times as much mischief as on kid on her own.
My dad had a story about my sisters who, not long after turning two, climbed up an "unclimbable" fence and scrambled to the top of a garage roof.
I grew up in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, to go play “in the street” means to play outside. And kids would go out on the stoop and be relatively unsupervised.
However, when I was about two one of the neighbors told me to go play in the street. So I did. Sat right down in the middle.
My mom said it turned her hair white. I guess I couldn’t have been there too long or I would have been a pancake.
Adam S. Gray
I’ve known people that had kids a year apart. “Circus” doesn’t describe it. Two the same age must be closer to “mental ward”.
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I know this family, and I believe their ages are actually 1 and 1/2. The paper was contacted about this and they stuck to their story because the police "verified" the ages. But hey, what's a little non truth here and there when you are out there to judge everyone?
So how many 18 month old kids can pull off what these two twins were able to, your Honor?
Today, 1:01:15 PM
Wonder who's right?
How old dose that child look like in the picture above? I am not good at guessing ages.
First off, this was a poorly written story. Lacks quite a bit of info. Second, as the grandmother of twin boys.....well, I can understand this happening. When my grandsons were just 3, their dad was out front cutting grass....the boys were playing in a completely fenced in back yard [6 foot high fence]. When my son went out back to check on the twins, he was in for the surprise of his life! They recently had a small deck taken down...and a new much larger one put up.....with the twins watching the workers in awe. In a matter of 15 minutes [the amount of time my son said he left them alone in the back yard], the twins found a crowbar and hammer and proceeded to take off every single balister on the new deck. As my son rounded the corner, they proudly exclaimed...”Look daddy, we helped you”! lol I wished I could have seen the look on my sons face. Also at 3 yrs old, with 3 adults sitting on my deck, one of our twins managed to sneak off into our big barn......back the golf cart out and proceed to “drive” past us as we wondered....where is scott? It happened in seconds...he was here one second and gone the next. The child couldn’t even reach the pedals yet he did drive that golf cart. His mom ran him down and was able to stop him. I thank God he missed every tree and the fence....and had enough sense to not drive into the road! Twins.......they are very much a handful, so I can almost beleive this was an accident and not neglect.
Honestly? Big enough to be three.
The neighbor called police? S/he didn't go rescue the little girl, but called police, who then took an unknown amount of time to get there?
What a neighbor, folks.
That got me, too. "Authorities pulled the kid out of the pond".
Someone saw a toddler neck deep in the water and didn't fish them out? What's up with that?
As for 'sleeping it off", for all we know, dad has a night job.
Not, imho, cause for charging the father unless there is something here no one is talking about.
I have watched a nearly two year old stack things to get to and open the outside door latch to try to go out-(BUSTED!--but would have succeeded)--(some) children are remarkably inventive and resourceful at that age.
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