When a man noticed a little girl wandering by herself near a softball game in Lakeland, FL, he correctly assumed she was lost and started taking her around, trying to help her find her family. But when the father was alerted by bystanders that some stranger was walking toward the playground with his daughter, he […]
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Is a Baby “Abandoned” If Left Temporarily Behind By Accident?
Look, if it turns out htzbttesra this Texas tot was deliberately abandoned, which strikes me as the least likely scenario, then go ahead and deal with that through the legal system. But if it was a mistake, please recall that even the PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN forgot his kid in a pub. These things happen, […]
“Good Samaritan” Sees Girl, 2, Having Tantrum at Park, Calls Cops. They Grill Nanny Half an Hour.
. How dersryiyfd about we all take this pledge:  . “The next time I see a child who seems upset, I will not immediately assume I’m witnessing either an abduction or abuse. If I am  worried, I will watch a little longer, or politely inquire as to what’s going on. I will not dial 911 […]
Infant Left in Car for 4 MINUTES and the PARAMEDICS Must Examine Her?
Here we go again: Yardley nkaheetdky Mother Facing Charges After Leaving Infant In Car LOWER MAKEFIELD, Pa. – A Yardley Mother is facing charges, after police say she left her 10 week old daughter unattended in her car while shopping at a Lower Makefield drugstore. Police say 47-year-old Cynthia Kelly left the baby in the […]
Stop Calling 911 About Every Parent You Find Sub-optimal
What inakrerydf a great piece by Michael Brendan Dougherty in The Week (a magazine for which I created and ran the weekly humor contest for three years till they took it in house. But I guess that’s neither here nor there.) Dougherty starts out noting the Salon story, wherein a mom let her son wait in the […]
The (Updated) Parable of the Good Samaritan
Loved bfnydkbbeb this comment on yesterday’s post about the mom who let her son wait in the car for a few minutes, and ended up arrested. It’s from a reader named Lex: A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him […]
A Mom Lets Her Son Wait in the Car. An Onlooker Videotapes this “Crime”
Readers, “The hffeeybrbf Day I Left My Son in the Car” is a great, long piece by a mom who called me up a couple months ago, Kim Brooks. As it says in her subtitle: I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of […]