I just was watching Dr. Phil and he had a lady on that was arrested for leaving her 2 yr. old in the car while she went 30 feet to put some money in the Salvation Army box.
She thinks she did nothing wrong as she had the car in sight at all time. The charges were finally dropped.
What do you think is it alright to leave a child in a car if you have the car in your sight at all times.
kissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada15,139 posts
kitty01: I just was watching Dr. Phil and he had a lady on that was arrested for leaving her 2 yr. old in the car while she went 30 feet to put some money in the Salvation Army box.
She thinks she did nothing wrong as she had the car in sight at all time. The charges were finally dropped.
What do you think is it alright to leave a child in a car if you have the car in your sight at all times.
Personally I do not think it is safe as a child can move fast and end up moving the car or someone could jump in and take the car, but she says we have all done it at one time or another just for a few minutes.
kitty01: I just was watching Dr. Phil and he had a lady on that was arrested for leaving her 2 yr. old in the car while she went 30 feet to put some money in the Salvation Army box.
She thinks she did nothing wrong as she had the car in sight at all time. The charges were finally dropped.
What do you think is it alright to leave a child in a car if you have the car in your sight at all times.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!! Shoulda dropped the kid in the salvation Army Box!!
kitty01: I just was watching Dr. Phil and he had a lady on that was arrested for leaving her 2 yr. old in the car while she went 30 feet to put some money in the Salvation Army box.
She thinks she did nothing wrong as she had the car in sight at all time. The charges were finally dropped.
What do you think is it alright to leave a child in a car if you have the car in your sight at all times.
Yes. Thirty feet is less than the length of my house, and it's hard to carry a two-year-old and a box at the same time. Now, if she'd left her kid in the car while she went into Wal-Mart for an hour, that would be different. That's how children die from overheating. Not because their mother took less than 5 minutes to drop a box off a short distance from the car.
livinglargein a good place, Kildare Ireland5,879 posts
druidess6308: Yes. Thirty feet is less than the length of my house, and it's hard to carry a two-year-old and a box at the same time. Now, if she'd left her kid in the car while she went into Wal-Mart for an hour, that would be different. That's how children die from overheating. Not because their mother took less than 5 minutes to drop a box off a short distance from the car.
And furthermore if she had left her child in her house whilst she went to a Tapas bar with a group of nine friends , that would be worse . I think prosecuting the woman was a travesty !!
These were some of the things that was brought up on the show, plus would you leave your kid in the car to mail a letter, if you were right beside the mailbox.
The lady on the show said she would have taken the kid out when she went to the mailbox. Dr. Phil made a face to that statement.
kitty01: These were some of the things that was brought up on the show, plus would you leave your kid in the car to mail a letter, if you were right beside the mailbox.
The lady on the show said she would have taken the kid out when she went to the mailbox. Dr. Phil made a face to that statement.
And appropriately so...that was stupid.
Depends, I guess, on how far the mailbox was...but still, seems odd. I would've made a face at her for that, too!
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She thinks she did nothing wrong as she had the car in sight at all time. The charges were finally dropped.
What do you think is it alright to leave a child in a car if you have the car in your sight at all times.