[RooRoobird14]

Well, I guess this proves that I haven't been overly protective of my daughter. She's 14 and I still don't let her roam the neighborhood by herself.

How absolutely terrible. I just don't understand how the grandmother could leave a five year old out playing out in the front yard.

[andy_card]

Well, I guess this proves that I haven't been overly protective of my daughter.

Oh yes. I don't think this is a newsworthy story, so I must be a pedophile. Hello?

She's 14 and I still don't let her roam the neighborhood by herself.

You're entitled to do whatever you want to do. She's your child. I think you're nuts.

[rwfromkansas]

You are blaming the grandmother for letting her kid play outside?????

You idiot. People around here still go out and play and have a good time as kids. Apparently they don't in your location. But here in Kansas, people still let their kids go ride their bikes across town or walk to a park to play. And they sure as heck let their kids play in the freaking front yard.

You live in Arizona, but not everywhere in this country is like New York City (or supposedly "dangerous" Tempe, Arizona of all places). Just because you choose to live in a place that gives you paranoid delusions does not mean those of us that enjoy old-fashioned American values are nuts.

[Illbay]

I just don't understand how the grandmother could leave a five year old out playing out in the front yard.

Please don't blame the victim. Hindsight is 20-20, as they say, and you should NOT have to worry about your child in the front yard of your home.

Rather, ask what people like that Michigan judge who ruled the names of registered sex offenders can't be posted on the Internet must be thinking.

Ask what the dogged defense attorneys and soft-headed judges must be thinking when they apply leniency in the case of a man convicted of assault on a child.

Ask what the people who oppose the death penalty will be thinking when this monster is caught and sentenced to die, and they're standing around with long faces holding up placards in his support.

To me, those are more rational questions to ask.

[Preech1]

Amen to that! We are just as protective with our children, my oldest daughter is 13.