After reading about this on abcnews.com, I was completely shocked.
How the hell can you put your 5 and 7 year old boys in the trunk of a civic everyday for 4 months and not know it was wrong? That’s your whole defense? You “Lack an understanding of right and wrong”?
Bullshit. This article also states that when a co-worker noticed the kids moaning in the back, you “turned up the car radio”.
Jesus Christ on a Crutch. I hope those children are never returned to you. In my eyes, certainly, you’ve forfitted parental rights.
So Rosemarie Randovan locked her kids in the trunk daily for months because she didn’t understand right from wrong and wasn’t acting out of malice … but when her co-worker heard her children moaning she knew enough to try to conceal her crime using her car radio? Please. Given the Christmas-gift-like 3-month jail sentence, I think the real question here is “Was Judge Robert Ambrose dropped as a child?”
The thing is that there are mitigating circumstances, that is lack of child care. It was a factor in the decision. I know of people who has to take lots of days off because they could not find a sitter for their children. They are on the verge of getting fired for excess absences.
But capacitor, despite their child-care crises the people you know did not lock their children in a car for several hours on a hot summer day … day after day … for months. Almost anything could have happened to Randovan’s children; her solution was inexcusable.
I agree with that. The parent subjected the children to a very dangerous situation out of her desparation. She should have called for help. But there is no reason to lambaste the judge for his decision.
I’m wondering what kind of job this woman has. Was she working from her car when her co-worker heard the moans coming from the trunk? It says she turned up her car stereo. Couldn’t the kids hang out in the back seat? I don’t understand.
Now, this is what kills me: “parenting skills” are needed. “Counselling” for that purpose.
Someone who needs to be taught that locking people into a trunk of a car for hours, day after day, by my definition at least (and I really don’t see it’s unreasonable) is very much beyond ever learning that. This isn’t a running-into-the-bank-oh-shit-are-the-windows-down? moment of forgetful stupidity, this is…something else.
There is in mine. When an adult doesn’t know “right from wrong”, that adult should in no way be looking after children. Ever.
If someone had seen the kids in the backseat unattended they would have called the cops and she evidently knew enough not to let that happen that’s why she hid them in the trunk. It’s obvious to everyone except the judge that she knew what she was doing was wrong. I wonder how they used the bathroom, ate and got enough air?
I might get blasted for saying this but, it would have been better to have left them home unsupervised, assuming that the home could be made safe. It is still not the best solution but it would be better than being locked in a trunk.
If she locked the kids out of sight in the trunk (instead of in plain view in the car) AND turned up the radio to cover up the sounds of the children moaning then I believe that she knew right from wrong. If she did not know right from wrong, she would not have felt it necessary to hide those actions.
I agree that it would be much safer to leave the children alone in the home then to lock them in a trunk in San Jose, Ca. Can you imagine how hot it got in that trunk?
Whoa. I have to beleive that this woman has some serious biological malfunction, or I would get so depressed about the depths of human depravity that I’d crawl under my desk and not come out for a week.
There’s a bright side. At least they didn’t find two little corpses in the trunk. That storybook ending was just one hot day away.
According to Reuters, she works at a Silicon Valley elctronics firm. Doesn’t say as what, and there’s some confusion about what shift - evenings, apparently. What a dumbass. At least the kids lived. Who wants to try to get that judge disseated?
It reminds me of the point in “Explaining Hitler”, where the author points out that you can’t really say that somehow the Nazis thought they were actually doing the work of God. If that’s the case, why did they try to cover it up? People don’t try to hide when they’re doing the right thing.
We had a woman do that in Cincinnati, too. Except he was older (8 or 9) and put in the back of a van, not the trunk, while Mom worked 6-8 hour shifts at the mall. Worked well until a snoopy suburban Mom noticed him and called the police. Oops.
Maybe the car manufacturers can spiff up the trunk with a t.v. and wet bar and call it the DX ChildCare model.
I meant to address this part of your post, but mornea pretty much covered it when s/he said “It’s obvious to everyone except the judge that she knew what she was doing was wrong.” The 3-month jail sentence given was inappropriate for someone who concealed her potentially deadly child abuse and then perjured herself with a “whoops, was that wrong?” defense. The judge made himself look like a fool for buying that load of rubbish.