After getting the further details you provide I'm wondering if there is even more to this story...
Posted on 11/16/2012 7:40:57 PM PST by expat1000
New Jersey School crossing guard placed a frantic call to police after seeing a young girl getting into an unfamiliar car.
A man was almost arrested on abduction charges after picking up the wrong girl from school. Art Deaner picked up 9-year-old Courtney who he does not know instead of the 6-year-old Courtney he was supposed to take home.
As a favor to the girl’s mother Deaner went to the Gloucester City School, in New Jersey to pick up six-year-old Courtney Fetters, instead he drove away with nine-year-old Courtney Durr. The mistaken identity almost landed him in jail.
The driver did not know the girl. He was doing a favor for her mother.
Code Words People !!
At the age of six, my kids and I had a code word worked out. If anyone had to do this for me, the code word had to be uttered.
Otherwise........STRANGER DANGER....
Talk about unconcerned parenting. Why would a parent of a young child let a man pick her up at school, when it is possible that man doesnt even know the daughter?
So this parents, doesn’t care that their daughter gets into cars with strangers. This man agrees to pick up a child he doesnt even know.
I have a 2 year old, and I am extremely selective who watches her when I need someone to watch her. I cannot imagine that changing.
So weird!!!
It did not say they were in a relationship or that he would otherwise have recognized the girl.
That was my thought.
In fact, two girls, both named Courtney, expecting helpful strangers.
Personally, I wouldn't have one of my kids picked up by someone who wasn't well known to the child, even if that person was well known to me. Especially at age 6 or 9. Actually, there are few people I would have pick up a child that age for me, even of people I know. But that's just me. There are lots of parents who do.
After getting the further details you provide I'm wondering if there is even more to this story...
I think I just got dumber by reading this thread. It might be the stupidest thing on FR ever. The only thing more asanine than the article is the response.
My brother in law says he could ALMOST make the same mistake picking up his own daughter. He says its like the Jewish version of children of the corn.
My sons go to school quiet often in their pajamas. Of course, the classroom is our dining room. :O)
This guy doesn’t learn. Says he’ll take a picture with him next time. I would be telling the mother “THERE WILL NOT BE A NEXT TIME. PERIOD”
I used to pick my nephews son up from school. When ever I did I would have to be at the office before school dismissed. They would check against preapproved list to pick up and you had to show ID. They would have the children being picked up come to the office.
On rereading the article I see I was wrong about that. The driver had some familiarity (obviously not much) with the girl he should have picked up. It was the girl he mistakenly picked up whom he did not know.
I can easily imagine myself in the same situation as the driver, trying to do a favor for one of my female friends with a young daughter. The odds that I would pick up a same-named wrong girl are ridiculously low, but what if it happened? Would bystanders still assume AFTER I returned the girl to the school that I had tried to kidnap her?
That is apparently what happened here. That is insane. A woman driver who made the same mistake would never have been treated this way. If I am ever asked to pick up someone else's child at school, I will refuse. I will not take the risk of running into rabid idiots who assume that because I am an unfamiliar male that I am probably evil.
In a coffee shop today, I listened to a mother boast that she had trained her three year old daughter not to like men. She loudly repeated this several times. She was not kidding. Rank misandry. The people she was talking with did not object. Apparently they agreed with her.
2012 America. Not the place it used to be. Not even close.
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