1) Your agreement with #17
2) Your assertion in #31 that "drugs" brought this "escalation"
3) Your statement in #31 that the "parents put her in harm's way, an implication that you believe the asinine "decoy" story.
4) Your sarcastic tone in your #34 to me.
The parents *did* -- in fact -- put the little girl in harm's way.
Here's something more general, but should be easily understood:
Growing up, I was calling 911 or my mom, who worked nights, several times per week, because my step-father ended up passed out on the sofa, due to excessive drinking and pot smoking.
Why should an 11-year-old child have to deal with this, why mom is at work?
If you don't agree, I suppose you expected that I, as a fifth grader, should have been expected to call 911 up to five times a week -- for a grown man.
Should a step-father put this kind of strain/responsibility on a young child? My step-father was no father, due to his excessive drug use. Sorry....