[FreeTally]

The 2 year old is Monicas niece. Monicas brother is the childs father and Monicas sister-in-law is the childs mother. Monica is 36 and her brother and sister would presumably be of a similar age which is certainly old enough to be out without their mother.

Sorry, I missed that. I didn't make that connection.

The only thing strange is that a 2 year old would be up that late, but there are circumstances that could provide a reasonable explaination for that as well.

Possibly so.

Also for your information, police cannot arrest a 2 year old, and they also cannot arrest her mother because to do so would leave the child unattended. Hope this clears up your confusion

Well, they wont arrest a two-year old, but the child will be taken into custody. Try robbing a store with a young child in your custody, and tell the cops you can't be arrested because a child is with you. If you are breaking the law, you will be arrested. The kid will end up at Child Welfare or, if the cops are nice, they will let a responsible relative take custody. Its odd here that the cops insisted that everyone there was breaking the law, but let the sister-in-law go. They probably didn't have time to deal with the kid.

[monday]

"Its odd here that the cops insisted that everyone there was breaking the law, but let the sister-in-law go. "

Kinda makes the point that even the police knew that what they were doing was wrong. Someone with an ounce of common since realized that arresting the childs mother would not only be wrong but probably criminal and decided he didn't want to go to prision.