This family in Japan did it to their seven year old son. Only they drove five hundred meters away before turning back. On a forested mountain road.
No, I don’t know. That’s blatant child abuse. Especially in an area inhabited by bears.
I don’t think I believe the parents. Either they left him a lot longer than they’re admitting, or something else entirely (and surely not good at all) happened to the poor kid.
There were parents who made their teenage daughter stay out all night as punishment when she came home late one too many times. She wound up raped and murdered.
One time in my life I wanted the felony murder rule expanded.
This incident in Japan does sound suspicious. A kid getting hopelessly lost that fast seems unlikely.
The whole “I’m leaving you here!” thing to punish a kid does happen though. It’s absolutely child abuse in my opinion. You don’t screw around with a kid’s sense of security and trust like that. It’s psychological torture.
I saw this happen once at a bus stop. A woman was standing there with her little boy, and he kept picking up something she was trying to throw away, and trying to give it back to her. After a few snarls to leave it alone, she announced she was leaving him there and walked away up the block. The kid, maybe three or four years old started screaming and crying in terror. I just froze. I couldn’t believe it.
The mom came back about two minutes later, and to my shame I said nothing at all about her doing that to her kid. But honestly, she looked like she was no stranger to street fights, and I didn’t want to get into it. It would only have made the kid feel worse to have some stranger yelling at his mom anyway.
Still, people, don’t pull this kind of crap on your kids.
Agreed. The parents have already lied once. I don’t think they’re telling the full story.
This reminds me of something i heard about, as a kid, years ago. These people forced their daughter out of the car, in the middle of nowhere, as punishment, and when they came back for her, she was gone. A good Samaritan happened to come along and pick her up. The state got involved, and the parents were on TV trying to get the girl out of foster care. That’s such a risky thing to do to someone, especially a terrified kid.
My bet is that the parents killed their son (intentionally or not) and are lying to cover it up. Horrible people.
peedin, that was my first thought too. 
Poor kid…
or the kid’s fine, and they’re going all Richard Heene.
Are you talking about Leslie Mahaffey? Apparently she missed curfew and her mom locked her out of the house and Paul & Karla got her. Could you imagine.
Happened to me as a 6 year old. Dad left me on a side street downtown in a major city. Drove about 2 blocks away and came back, never left my sight. I stayed pretty calm (I can remember thinking to myself that I needed to find an authority figure immediately), but Dad came back a mess. Told me that I’d never forget that moment and he was right. Fucking asshole. :mad:
Five hundred meters? You can still see that in your rear view mirror.
Like Lord Feldon, I don’t think that the parents are giving the authorities the truth.
I told my 5 year old whining son to get out of the car and walk home. We were in the middle of Kansas and it was midnight. Not a light to be seen anywhere.
It was a desperate move on my part. I had absolutely no intention of letting him open the door. But he shut up and fell asleep 5 minutes later. After 10 hours of driving his sick mother and sick sister towards home with 3 hours to go I had to do something to get my nerves back.
He’s 30 now, visits often and thinks the whole story is funny. I say, just you wait buddy boy. You will remember me when your little monster pushes your limit.
That’s 3 standard city blocks. On a mountain road, the car would have been out of sight for a seemingly very long time.
Are you referring to that girl who was kidnapped by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka? I was also surprised that the parents didn’t get in some kind of trouble.
The one time my parents did that to us, my brother was in high school and we had gone out for pizza for my sister’s birthday. He had been acting very strangely all evening, mainly because he didn’t want to go out with his family, and on the way home, my dad pulled into a parking lot (nearly killing all of us in the process), used some words I’ve never heard him say before or since :eek: and ordered him out of the car several miles from home in zero-degree weather. The only reason Dad also didn’t run him over was because there were witnesses.
A couple hours later, he did come home. He refused to say how he got home or where he was in the meantime. :dubious:
Shockingly, it appears this may have a happy ending: he’s been found alive
After so many days I thought there was no way.
Edit: Preliminary reports say he was found in a disused military building.
My parents would do this to me, too. The one I really remember as terrifying me was when Dad got sick of waiting for Mom to finish shopping in some store while we were on a road trip. We were 300 some odd miles from home on the way to my grandparents’ (his folks) house. I was mad at her myself because it was hot and she was always doing this. Disappearing for hours in stores, hunting bargains, and feeding her shopping addiction. Dad declared he’d had enough and started driving away. Even though I was angry I was still scared of what would happen. My sister and I cried and begged until he finally stopped and turned around. Mom was outside looking for us by then. After she got in, they spent the rest of the trip screaming and yelling at each other. I was somewhere between 5 and 9 years old.
So the story is, the rock-pitching seven-year-old trekked through bear-infested woods until he found an abandoned military facility?
Wait, is this – are we in a comic-book origin issue?
When I was in high school, I was on the debate team, and my mother volunteered to drive some of us to an out-of-town tournament because she had a friend living in that town. At the end, there was a girl on our team who stood in the cafeteria sobbing until almost everyone else had gone home; I never found out why but I suspect that (among other things) she was mad because she hadn’t been assigned to The Cooler Kids’ Car. (VERY long story about that.) I finally told her, “If you don’t come with me, we’re going to leave you here” and I told my mother to do that. She wouldn’t, but I would have if I had been driving. She finally did come with me a few minutes later, after all the other vehicles had departed and she realized she wasn’t getting home any other way.
I’m just glad to see that the little boy is alive and apparently unharmed (physically, anyway). I wonder how Japan handles child abuse cases.
I’m glad I was wrong. I was convinced that kid had met a bad end.