# Florida mother's epic fail of common sense puts her child in the hands of a predator and killer. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803 "2013-06-24T17:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/61 "2013-06-25T21:12:15Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Just-world hypothesis got you down? :rolleyes: Her stupidity is only exceptional when viewed through the hindsightful glasses of internet badasses sitting atop their lofty armchairs. Plenty of people \*in this thread \*(and the world) have accepted similar offers of generosity and lived to tell the tale. You didn’t hear about those incidents because most people aren’t murderous pedophiles, not because they _never happen_. > > Oh, we’re in the pit? Well… take that, you fucking idiot! And this! And how about some of _that_? Yeah! But it’s about children, and a chance to tell another parent that they did a bad job! Why would they apply the same logic they do about the TSA? No level of risk is acceptable for children! Except, of course, when children are the devil and shouldn’t exist in the first place because they make too much noise. ---
**Author:** ![Among\_Liberals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Among\_Liberals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Among_Liberals)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/62 "2013-06-25T23:42:32Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I kinda-sorta get this, but for everyone who says getting to Kindergarten on time isn’t important… when does it become important? Obviously not in elementary school at all; very little of impact occurs there. Middle school is similarly unimportant. High school? Eh… > > I guess it only matters once you’re in college and you have a final? That was the implication earlier. But, how does one have the skills to arrive on time for finals in college if no one’s ever placed any importance on punctuality for the first 18 years of your life? I think I’m going to stick with my plan of teaching the importance of school from day one. It matters when you start to get appreciable judgment for it. Would you remember your kid being late to school if you didn’t have the story of a stranger’s ride to go with it? ---
**Author:** ![Among\_Liberals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Among\_Liberals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Among_Liberals)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/63 "2013-06-25T23:44:18Z")
EDIT: I mean to say, it isn’t really until high school that there is some kind of reprimand for being late. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/64 "2013-06-26T00:13:30Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Just-world hypothesis got you down? :rolleyes: Her stupidity is only exceptional when viewed through the hindsightful glasses of internet badasses sitting atop their lofty armchairs. Plenty of people \*in this thread \*(and the world) have accepted similar offers of generosity and lived to tell the tale. You didn’t hear about those incidents because most people aren’t murderous pedophiles, not because they _never happen_. > > Oh, we’re in the pit? Well… take that, you fucking idiot! And this! And how about some of _that_? Yeah! It goes without saying that the only one to blame is the murderer. But, I don’t really think she is sharp enough to make safe decisions for the rest of her children. It’s just like the umkayy thing. Some people don’t seem to get that it is ok to make a gullible mistake. But when you are just willfully, persistently, aggressively gullible, you can’t still stand there saying, “well, hey, everyone makes mistakes.” ETA: I notice you saying people in this thread have accepted similar offers. No, I don’t see that. I see people in this thread who have accepted rides from strangers. I’ve done that, and I say that without the caveat, “I know I was being stupid”. I don’t think I was being stupid at all. I stand by my judgments. But, I would never have fallen for such a raggedy scammy, red flag dropping scheme as the murderer pulled, because I would have on my “be extra skeptical, you have your kids safety at stake” hat. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/65 "2013-06-26T02:07:00Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > It goes without saying that the only one to blame is the murderer. But, I don’t really think she is sharp enough to make safe decisions for the rest of her children. > > It’s just like the umkayy thing. Some people don’t seem to get that it is ok to make a gullible mistake. But when you are just willfully, persistently, aggressively gullible, you can’t still stand there saying, “well, hey, everyone makes mistakes.” > > ETA: I notice you saying people in this thread have accepted similar offers. No, I don’t see that. I see people in this thread who have accepted rides from strangers. I’ve done that, and I say that without the caveat, “I know I was being stupid”. I don’t think I was being stupid at all. I stand by my judgments. But, I would never have fallen for such a raggedy scammy, red flag dropping scheme as the murderer pulled, because I would have on my “be extra skeptical, you have your kids safety at stake” hat. I still don’t think the mother did anything out of the ordinary for an average person. Certainly her actions (or passives, as they were) were not so wrong as to warrant losing her children. She was taken advantage of by a seemingly-generous person. Stranger abductions are so rare that taking her kids away would serve \*no \*purpose besides misguided revenge. Bottom line: if this little girl hadn’t gotten kidnapped and murdered today, do you doubt he would have pursued another tomorrow? Or next week? With a world full of potential victims, I think it’s criminally unreasonable to suggest otherwise. Maybe you’re one of the subset of people who is too “strong” to fall for such an obvious ploy. But, while lacking street smarts may be a character flaw, it is very very common. Definitely not sufficient to warrant taking away the right to raise her children. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/66 "2013-06-26T02:42:04Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > It goes without saying that the only one to blame is the murderer. But, I don’t really think she is sharp enough to make safe decisions for the rest of her children. > > It’s just like the umkayy thing. Some people don’t seem to get that it is ok to make a gullible mistake. But when you are just willfully, persistently, aggressively gullible, you can’t still stand there saying, “well, hey, everyone makes mistakes.” > > ETA: I notice you saying people in this thread have accepted similar offers. No, I don’t see that. I see people in this thread who have accepted rides from strangers. I’ve done that, and I say that without the caveat, “I know I was being stupid”. I don’t think I was being stupid at all. I stand by my judgments. But, I would never have fallen for such a raggedy scammy, red flag dropping scheme as the murderer pulled, because I would have on my “be extra skeptical, you have your kids safety at stake” hat. It’s the last part of your post that drives home why this mother would be unfit to continue to raise her remaining children. Her creepo meter sounded off and instead of paying more attention to it, she supposedly let her daughter wander off out of sight. And this is in light of every other wrong assumption she made and the father apparently petitioning the court for custody because of her deficiencies. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/67 "2013-06-26T02:55:52Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I kinda-sorta get this, but for everyone who says getting to Kindergarten on time isn’t important… when does it become important? Obviously not in elementary school at all; very little of impact occurs there. Middle school is similarly unimportant. High school? Eh… > > I guess it only matters once you’re in college and you have a final? That was the implication earlier. But, how does one have the skills to arrive on time for finals in college if no one’s ever placed any importance on punctuality for the first 18 years of your life? I think I’m going to stick with my plan of teaching the importance of school from day one. Way to exclude the middle. I didn’t say it was completely unimportant to be on time for Kindergarten, and even if I or others thought that about that one day, since when is saying it’s ok to be late once the same as saying it’s _never important at all for the first 8 years of one’s education_ to be punctual? How is being late once suddenly dismissing “the importance of school”? I just happen to think one day in Kindergarten isn’t a panic-level, accept a ride from a stranger because it’s your only hope of survival situation. Doesn’t mean I’m ok with being late consistently, nor do I think school is unimportant. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/68 "2013-06-26T03:36:26Z")
Successful predators are very good at picking cooperative victims, and have numerous techniques to feel out a person’s vulnerabilities. They are also very well versed in disarming their victims. It’s actually quite easy, when your mind is unclouded by empathy and morality, to cut right through a person’s defenses. Of course, it doesn’t work every time, but there are a lot of potential targets out there, and each time they fail is just more practice that refines their technique. Eventually, they’ll hit a strike. None of us can say how we would fare in this situation, because none of us have any way of knowing how many times we’ve been face-to-face with a predator. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/69 "2013-06-26T04:22:54Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > If you go onto a site like [NotAlwaysRight.com](http://NotAlwaysRight.com) you can finds tons of heartwarming stories that start off just like this one. I’m sorry, I’m not going to demonize a woman who made a mistake and lost her daughter in the most horrific way possible because of it. Yes, it was poor judgment. But, my god… talk about kicking someone when they’re down. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/70 "2013-06-26T05:42:08Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Successful predators are very good at picking cooperative victims, and have numerous techniques to feel out a person’s vulnerabilities. They are also very well versed in disarming their victims. It’s actually quite easy, when your mind is unclouded by empathy and morality, to cut right through a person’s defenses. Of course, it doesn’t work every time, but there are a lot of potential targets out there, and each time they fail is just more practice that refines their technique. Eventually, they’ll hit a strike. > > None of us can say how we would fare in this situation, because none of us have any way of knowing how many times we’ve been face-to-face with a predator. Nah. Folks can call me internet tough guy, arm chair quarterback, Billy Bad Ass, I don’t care. You can’t tell me I don’t know how I would fare n a situation like that, because yes I do. I’d be skeptical as hell, and would tell the deuce, “Nice try, buddy.” I don’t fall for “I have a hundred dollar gift card, now if you will step just this way my fine lady, I’ll showyawhatI’mgonnado!” scams. Period. I may trust a stranger one day and get played, but I would never fall for an obvious scam. If someone throws me a dozen red flags, I take notice, particularly if I have others in my care. However! I do think I was wrong to say she shouldn’t be trusted with the other kids. That’s not my style to go that route, so I feel bad that I went there. Rather, I should say, she needs to sharpen up. I can’t imagine her pain, so I regret judging her harshly, but I know that she has got to sharpen up. ---
**Author:** ![Among\_Liberals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Among\_Liberals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Among_Liberals)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/71 "2013-06-27T02:30:33Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Nah. Folks can call me internet tough guy, arm chair quarterback, Billy Bad Ass, I don’t care. You can’t tell me I don’t know how I would fare n a situation like that, because yes I do. I’d be skeptical as hell, and would tell the deuce, “Nice try, buddy.” I don’t fall for “I have a hundred dollar gift card, now if you will step just this way my fine lady, I’ll showyawhatI’mgonnado!” scams. Period. I may trust a stranger one day and get played, but I would never fall for an obvious scam. If someone throws me a dozen red flags, I take notice, particularly if I have others in my care. > > However! I do think I was wrong to say she shouldn’t be trusted with the other kids. That’s not my style to go that route, so I feel bad that I went there. Rather, I should say, she needs to sharpen up. I can’t imagine her pain, so I regret judging her harshly, but I know that she has got to sharpen up. So if the kid didn’t end up dead but only temporarily kidnapped, would you say that this wouldn’t make a good argument in court for her to lose custody of her children? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/72 "2013-06-27T02:55:46Z")
Well, at least OP started this in the Pit. Good lord, have you never made a bonehead mistake? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/73 "2013-06-27T04:42:09Z")
It was probably not the first time she had done something like this. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/74 "2013-06-27T04:48:24Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > I’m rather surprised that [this news story](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/cherish-lily-perrywinkle-murder-donald-james-smith-not-guilty_n_3489954.html) hasn’t shown up here yet, and if it has, I apologize. > > To sum up: mother and three children are at a Dollar General in Jacksonville when a man approaches them, having heard the mother talk about stuff they can’t afford, and offers to pay for stuff for them at Walmart with his “wife’s” $100 gift card. They wait a while at the DG, then the man says that it looks as if they’ll have to meet his “wife” over at the Walmart with her card. So mom GETS INTO THIS TOTAL STRANGER’S VAN WITH HER THREE CHILDREN and he drives them over to the Walmart. > > After they’ve stalled around a while browsing in Walmart while waiting for the “wife”, the guy says he’s going over to the store McDonalds to get something to eat and would anybody like anything. Now, early reports said that the mother let her eight-year-old daughter Cherish go with him. Later, the mother said that she DIDN’T give her permission, that of course she wouldn’t have because the guy seemed “creepy” and she had a bad feeling from the time they were in the van, and that Cherish must have followed him without telling her (then why didn’t the mother notice?). > > Anyway, once the mother realizes they’re gone she calls the police. > > This eight-year-old girl’s body was found in a nearby church a day later. The man is a registered sex offender who had been released from prison in May. > > Now, of course I feel nothing but loathing for the monster who could do something like this. But I feel no less disgust for the mother in this case. I’ve seen comments expressing sympathy for her like “she made a mistake and she’s being punished enough for it,” or, “she lost a child…hasn’t she suffered enough?” > > Sorry, but that doesn’t wash. A “mistake” is if you take your eyes off your kid for a moment–which can happen to anyone. A “mistake” is if you trust a friend or family member that you didn’t know was a pedophile. > > This…well, what is drummed into every person’s head from kindergarten on? “Don’t take gifts from a stranger. Don’t get into a stranger’s car.” This grown woman did both, and brought her three children with her. Regardless of whether she let her daughter go with the man (and her later story sounds suspect), she showed incredible stupidity and carelessness in going with this guy in the first place…so much so that I question her ability to raise her other two children. > > Which Cherish’s father seems to agree with, BTW. Apparently, he (who was never married to the mother, but is married to someone else now and living in California) has been trying to get primary custody of her for years. To make it even sadder, she was supposed to fly out to California on Saturday to visit him. He made a Facebook statement condemning the family courts for ever giving her custody, claiming that he had tried to present her issues to the court but had been brushed aside, being told he was only trying to “hurt” her. Well, he says, the truth about the “great mother” has come out. > > Either this woman is too stupid to be trusted with her two other children (with her current boyfriend), or…there’s something worse going on that we haven’t found out about yet. > > So, either way, I pit this woman and I hope her other children are removed somewhere safe away from her. :mad: Now, that’s just not fair, you judgmental bitch! How do you know she didn’t **sell** him the girl like an honest Mom?! ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/75 "2013-06-27T05:34:27Z")
> [@Among\_Liberals](#): > > So if the kid didn’t end up dead but only temporarily kidnapped, would you say that this wouldn’t make a good argument in court for her to lose custody of her children? Yeah, on further thought, I wouldn’t want to see her kids taken. Maybe they can give her some parenting classes. Not sure if that would help, but she really just needs a few lessons in not being so damn simple and gullible in the face of obvious danger. ---
**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/76 "2013-06-27T05:34:48Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Two things everybody should know: > > Never let anyone you don’t know really well drive you anywhere. > > Trust your vibes. I’ve heard various members of law enforcement preach this for years. If you get a creepy vibe, it’s because there is something wrong. This is why the “don’t judge” mentality that often gets preached is so freakin’ dangerous. Judge, people. JUDGE FOR YOUR LIVES! ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/77 "2013-06-27T11:39:06Z")
> [@Among\_Liberals](#): > > EDIT: I mean to say, it isn’t really until high school that there is some kind of reprimand for being late. That’s not the point. The point is sending a message to the child that school is important, and that being late is a Big Deal. And when you are trying to send that message to the kid as firmly as you can, it’s pretty easy to forget that it’s not a big deal-big deal yourself. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/78 "2013-06-27T13:32:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > But c’mon - a shopping trip to Wal-Mart, followed by _haute cuisine_ at Micky D’s! Find me a woman who wouldn’t be swept off her Reeboks by luxury like that. What sort of sub-standard crappy Wal-Mart doesn’t already have the McDonald’s inside anyway? But yeah, mother = idiot for multiple reasons, first, for letting the daughter go, and second because she didn’t teach the daughter that going would be bad in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/79 "2013-06-27T14:16:48Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Successful predators are very good at picking cooperative victims, and have numerous techniques to feel out a person’s vulnerabilities. They are also very well versed in disarming their victims. It’s actually quite easy, when your mind is unclouded by empathy and morality, to cut right through a person’s defenses. Of course, it doesn’t work every time, but there are a lot of potential targets out there, and each time they fail is just more practice that refines their technique. Eventually, they’ll hit a strike. > > None of us can say how we would fare in this situation, because none of us have any way of knowing how many times we’ve been face-to-face with a predator. But in that case, we’ve probably all been face to face with a predator, but because we are not cooperative victims, we did handle it well. And of course we’ve been face to face with a predator. Maybe not a rape-and-murder type but men and women have been molested, raped, and other on the Dope, and men and women have been robbed, mugged, and beaten. If those aren’t predators of a stripe I am not sure what is. And we remember how we handled ourselves in those situations, and whether we did something foolish or not. Even at seventeen I knew better than to get in a stranger’s car. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803/80 "2013-06-27T16:22:55Z")
The mother also forgot one of the cardinal rules of life that is almost always true - if it sounds too good to be true, it is. I’d love for a stranger to come up to me and hand me $100, no strings attached, but that just doesn’t happen. If someone comes up to me and offers me $100, I’m going to look for the strings, because there will be some. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-mothers-epic-fail-of-common-sense-puts-her-child-in-the-hands-of-a-predator-and-killer/661803.md?page=5)