What gets me is what the authorities do to the people when it turns out they did nothing wrong.
That will follow each member of the family for the rest of their lives plus the monetary hit.
And the idiot neighbor has no responsibility?
Mostly the authorities make me mad. The first responders could have avoided all this for this family but they are idiots too because it all goes as the squeaky wheels are the only ones heard. Reasonable people do nothing.
We will regret it soon.
PS: If the neighbor knew enough to know that the parents were not home yet, they should have at least checked with the kid first. Take him home for a bit, when parents get home, ask pointed questions, find out about traffic. No harm, no foul, no intent.
Be a neighbor…
Bet the neighbors have it in for the other family for some reason.
This is addressed in the interview article linked to above that says “she worried that if he was in the house alone and a burglar barged in, he’d be in more danger than if he was free outside.”
When I was a child, I knew every neighbor on my block. I could have gone to any one of them for help at any time. It’s a shame kids these days don’t have that. Nobody gets involved, nobody wants to know their neighbors.
This kind of story is upsetting to me but not because of the state or overly concerned neighbors. It is upsetting because they only ever tell one side of the story, the side of the people whose children were taken into protective custody. The state legally can’t tell you their side and it almost always ends up that the reasons they took the children were sound and the parent who went to the media about it was a nutball.
We had a thread a while back about this kind of thing where the OP was furious because the government came in and took the kids out of their home beause the parents were from India. And then a few weeks later the father came out and explained that he wanted to leave his wife but she had threatened to kill their children if he did so he called CPS to take the kids and keep them safe while he got out of dodge. The mother called the media as a last ditch attempt to get her kids back and the media got people whipped up into this frothing, raging frenzy over the nanny state *taking people’s children! *
CPS gets calls from people every single day. They deal with horrific cases of abuse and neglect. They have plenty of children who need their help, a budget that keeps getting slashed (just like every other government agency), and people who got into the business because helping children is their passion. They don’t have the time, resources, or funds to remove every child seen playing alone outside from their home. I’m not saying mistakes never happen or that the agency is infallable, I’m simply saying that by and large most of the children taken into custody are taken for really good reasons and the cases we see in the media tend to be poorly researched pieces that are designed to paint the agency in the worst possible light.
Bawahahaha
Well, sorta.
Look at the time.
By that time, I am not sure where anywhere is or if… What was I talking about? Your guess is as good as mine…
