I heard this story on the news this morning. Short summary: Woman was arrested and jailed and apparently never told anyone that her 2-year-old was home alone - for three weeks!! The father (who was separated from the mother) went to the apartment, had the manager open the door, and there was the child. She survived eating ketchup, mustard, raw pasta, and rice.
I’m speechless! Thankfully, the child is being treated for malnutrition. Here’s hoping she’ll be OK physically. What this has done to her emotionally is yet to be seen.
OMG thats horrible! How could anyone do that to a poor child? My Og why do these wastes of air breed? I couldn’t imagine why she didn’t tell anyone the baby was at home. What in the WORLD made her leave the baby home alone in the first place?!?!!?!!??! Damn what a dumb ass. Poor kid.
I suppose when reading someone their rights while being arrested, the cops should ask if there are any children/dependant adults that are going to be left alone.
When I was about to be arrested, the cop ( keep in mind this is small town Iowa ) actually let me take my kids to a baby sitter before I came in to the LEC. My hubby was able to pick the kids up when he got home from work.
There is a normal stage that kids go through of anxiety when the parent leaves but the fears are comforted by the parent coming back. I have a feeling this child had no conception of time so 2 weeks seemed like “forever” and by not having positive re-enforcement of a parent returning (in a timely fashion) will have her skitzy for a long time. Thank God the father found her!
I think the child was cery resourceful at the age of 2 to get the condiments and spaghetti.
Thank God for the cartoon network too! That at least kept her mind occupied.
Even more insane is that she had talked to the child’s father during her incarceration and told him that the child was with neighbors! That sounds like attempted murder to me, and I hope she never never never gets that little girl back because she obviously doesn’t deserve her.
CNN says that Mom and Dad were in the process of getting a divorce, and that Dad only had visitation rights as of this particular point in the proceedings.
Wow, what a pathetic rant. See some story on cnn that everyone will agree is terrible, then run to the pit and offer a four line expresison of your disgust. Thanks for sharing. In other news: Hitler evil, sky blue, sun to rise in the east tomorrow.
Cussing isn’t the issue. But, it always helps. I’m just saying this is a pathetic topic to rant about. No one is going to disagree with you, you have no connection to this kid, in short there isn’t anything about this story to distinguish it from the any other horrible situation from anywhere around the world that happens on any given day. In a lot of ways this situation isn’t even that bad, afterall the kid made it, and will probably not even remember in a year or so. Frankly, this is probably the best thing that ever happened to this kid, since now she won’t have to live with her crack-whore mother anymore.