Posted on 06/09/2015 5:03:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
i am torn about this. Why don’t they have a neighbor available to watch him if the parents are late? What if there was horrible weather that day? Some molester just waiting for his prey? We are not talking 10 minutes. We are talking an hour and a half.
Liberal mania ...
Should have given the kid a key.
Was there shelter available in the back yard? We know it was raining. Were the children standing out in the rain for an hour and a half, or was there adequate cover?
This was not a latchkey kid — no key. NOT the same as our latchkey youth. NOT at all.
I’m not torn at all. Everyone involved in taking those kids needs a beat down.
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Why did the plan not include “Have a key” (even if it’s hidden in a combination lock vault).
That said, yes the government was clumsy bum about it. A citation might have made much more sense.
In line with our current Democrat culture, perhaps the government workers could find a nice pair of homosexual men to care for this boy.
I was born and raised in Germany and when my parents went to the movie or to a dance on Saturday evening we stayed home by our self. There was no such thing as a baby sitter
Yup - something is wrong with this story. No city was identified as far as I could find. The kids were taken by the State for a month and placed where? More lousy reporting. If everything is true as written, the parents need a good lawyer to sue them all.
My niece and nephew both have keys and I can’t tell you how many times I or my wife have gotten the call that they need one of us to come let them in to their own house.
But I agree the boy should have a key to his house for just such an occasion. Or a spare key hidden in the shed.
Perhaps the busybody neighbor that reported the kid could have offered to have the kid wait with them or wait or their porch or just keep an I on him till the parents got home and then talk to them about being a haven for the kid in such times.
But no, today people don’t want to get involved except as to be anonymous callers to report negligent parents.
What is the P.C. group doing to our children, raising sissies???????????????????????/
I’m not torn at all. The state having this kind of power is far and away more dangerous than the infinitesimally small chance of harm befalling a kid forced to wait in his backyard for 90 minutes. Also, I will venture that this kid’s month in the care of the state has exposed him to more danger than ever before in his life.
As a grad ... don’t send any ninnies who can’t survive in their own yard for an hour and a half to my school.
Should the kids have a key, sure, but as a kid I forgot mine sometimes. It happens.
The greatest danger to children today may very well be the boogie monster random predator fears. Yes, children should be taught to deal properly with strangers, but the vast vast majority of predators are in the family/friends day circle.
At 11 I walked home, by myself, every day. And if I forgot my key I did my homework on the back porch and played catch ... alone.
At ten my older sister had the house key.
She was 12.
We got separated when I broke my collar bone playing football. Full tackle no pads. She kept playing.
I broke into the house (no damage) through a basement window, crawled through and fell into a couch.
Called my Dad who was really pissed off that he had to come home from work to take me to the hospital.
He did ask how I got into the house.
“That’s my Boy!!”
Here’s a key.
And the cop relieved himself in their back yard?
When I was 11 years old it wasn’t unusual for my sisters and I do be alone at home for a few hours. We had chores we had to do before our parents got home.
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