you don’t leave infants in a car. you just don’t
What the hell is wrong with the cops that they’ve become so slavishly obsessed with arresting people for non-crimes? Every last cop involved in these arrests should be fired and permanently barred from working in law enforcement.
No, just democrats..................
I now have a little more understanding of the Harried mothers that drag their screaming child into the grocery store. I’m usually annoyed when a women brings four children into the store to buy one loaf of bread.
When I was 15, my mother left my sisters and me in our van while she went into the store. My youngest sister, 8 at the time, went and sat in the front seat because she could move around better or something. Then, a woman and her husband drove up, and the woman got out of her car and started flipping out screaming that my sister was “trapped in the car”. I was sitting in the middle of the van (which had tainted windows) so I guess she didn’t see me or my other sister. I had to open up the car and tell the hysterical woman that as a 15-year-old, I was perfectly capable of watching my sister, and that my 8-year-old sister was capable of opening the door if she needed to. She just left after that.
Stop the world; I want to get off...
It would be nice if these prosecutors were held accountable for grossly overcharging these women.
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What a disturbing story. Every CPS story I read is out of hell. Those people are just outright monsters, as well as the cops and judges who back them up. They use stories of actual child abuse to justify unleashing horror on regular families. They’ve GOT to be reined in.
Stories like this are why if one or both of my kids (6 and 2 and a half) are with me when I’m out somewhere, they’re coming with me.
When I lived in Europe (late 1990s), I used to see strollers with kids in them parked outside restaurants. Moms would be inside eating lunch. No one thought anything was wrong with that.
I have sympathy for the mom. I don’t think she was an abusive mom. It always amazes me how the system seems to so often ignore much of true parental abuse and actually works hard in many cases to replace children from abusive homes right back into that very situation they were rescued from.
That being said, I would never trust elementary school aged children left in a parking lot to supervise younger children. All it would take is some adult pervert to come to the car and give some lame story about how their mom asked them to come to get them.
Im not sure what the purpose of this article is. Every summer I read horror stories about children being left in a locked car and dying from heat exhaustion and dehydration. I do not care if you parked your car in the shade with the windows down. I do not care if you didn’t want to wake up your child. I do not care if you were only gone for 10 minutes. YOU DO NOT LEAVE A CHILD UNATTENDED IN A CAR! Parenting 101. How can anyone defend this. This has nothing to do with liberals or democrats. This is common sense. 10 minutes is 9 minutes and 30 seconds longer than it would take for some freak to take your child. This is your kid we’re talking about. Your own comfort should not come before their safety you idiot. I feel as though this system worked. I’m willing to bet that you and the other parents in this story haven’t left your kid in the car again.
“The officer said his wife needed to call the police about an incident in a parking lot.
Courtney was baffled but did as instructed. “I just thought I needed to explain it,” she told me. “I thought that it was all a misunderstanding.”
She and the officer spoke for about 30 minutes.”
Big mistake. If the police had enough evidence to arrest her, they would have. Saying “they want to talk” was just another way of saying “we want you to give us more evidence so that we have enough to arrest you”.
Blue states...all three of them. I’m not surprised at all. This would never have happened where I’m from in Alaska.
It wasn't that many years ago I was raising them but it was a totally different world. A world where people generally minded their own business.
BTW, hot-car deaths do happen. But that's because the parents go into a casino or a bar and spend hours inside. In my neck of the woods, a father had his child die because he went to work with him in the back seat and completely forgot he was there - it was 90 degrees and the child was strapped to his car seat for 10 hours. To all you would-be busy-body "heroes" out there, all of that is not even in the same ballpark as a harried parent dashing into the store for a quick loaf of bread. If you are really that concerned, then by all means, spend a few minutes by the car until the parent comes out. Give them a self-righteous lecture if that floats your boat. But don't go calling the cops on them and ruining their lives.
Reminds me of the witch-hunt that the MADD people are on, where they want to destroy the lives of people having a glass of wine at dinner.
Stupid, stupid "progressives." Always demanding new laws to prevent statistically tiny social imperfections, always making excuses when one of their own breaks the law.
When one soldier dies in combat, when one homosexual couple is offended at a bakery, when a tiny minority of legal gun owners use a gun illegally, they go batcrap crazy. But in this dweeb's mind, it should be okay to leave children in the car because the odds of something happening are low — a few abductions and deaths here and there would be more convenient for the "greater good" of lazy liberal parents who forgot to abort when they could have.
This article has plenty of blame for the butt-inskies, the third parties who called the cops.
And yeah. Too many people need to MYOB.
However, my Giva Dam meter for the moms here must be broken. Its not even moving.
How did this get posted on Salon? The women there are changing course again?