Baby Missing After Carjacking in Georgetown Early This Evening (30th & M St. NW)

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Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

It's a rollercoaster of a story. They did do the right thing. Still feel horrified by the mom. some witnesses commented that she took her time smelling all the candles at La Labo, ran out clutching one when she saw her car was gone, and then came back in to talk to the Police there.

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I hate it here.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This is different, tho, because the car was seemingly left unlocked and running.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

heartwarming? kidnapping an infant and then abandoning it outside?

They stole a car. I sincerely doubt they knew the baby was there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This is different, tho, because the car was seemingly left unlocked and running.

Just too tempting for those joyriding youths.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate it here.

I do too. I have been here almost all of my adult life, decades. I thought some floor would be put in the situation.

I just saw DC is now #2 city for stolen cars (separate from carjackings).

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This.

A child or car or any thing should be able to exist without fearing that it will be taken. That does not mean parents should leave kids unattended. But when a car with a baby in it is stolen…. It is the thieves fault. Not the parents.

Would I personally want to risk this? No. And yet, have I left my five year old in the car to go grab a prescription when they were sick? 100%.

The type of errand does not change the morality of anyone involved.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of heat for the mom. When I was a kid it was perfectly safe to leave kids or a baby in the car to for a quick store run. Would also walk to the store alone in elementary school at age 5. In safer countries women leave babies in strollers on the front steps to put their groceries in. Those countries are disappearing and those times are gone. She apparently thought Georgetown and its million dollar realty prices were safe.

I’m 45 years old and grew up in upstate NY, and it was never acceptable to leave a 4 month old unattended in a running vehicle while you go shop for perfume.

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Even if you thought it was okay to leave a kid in the car while you picked up dry cleaning, no one was leaving their baby in a running car while they went shopping.

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many are not wrong, per se

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

Maybe. They also know that at worst they were looking at unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charges with no jail time, possible youth act etc. If the baby got hurt or they kept her too long that would change things drastically. Now, they either won't be caught or will face little consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:This city can't gentrify fast enough.

Do you think there is more gentrification coming? I know quite a few UMC/MC folks who are considering leaving. I've been in DC for a long time and for the first time ever I've started to consider relocating.

Same.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people get ahold of their teens. Curfew curfew curfew

This happened at 6 pm? No curfew is going to fix this.

6 pm on M street NW!

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Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

Hope you told them what utter bullshit this was! 4sets of fingerprints? Arrest and charge them all, unless there is a reason for that fingerprint in the car. Are these people STUPID?

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Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

That really seems like laziness. If a link is found between all the suspects, clearly they all carjacked together.

Nope, not according to the communications guy from prosecution at the Council meet n' greet. We brought up carjackings (a friend of ours has been carjacked in DC), and according to the rep, "carjacking cases are very hard to prosecute because who is to say the person who is found with the car is the one who stole it?" So... they don't prosecute. Interpret that as you will.

What in the world is the logic of this? If a diamond necklace is stolen from someone and a person is found in possession of that necklace surely they can reasonably be charged with theft? Same with just about any other stolen goods. What is special about a car that we would think innocent people are just routinely driving stolen vehicles.

And why not at least charge with possession of stolen goods. If they want that charge dropped they can give a name of who they believed gave them lawful possession of the car? If you’re found with a vehicle that is stolen and you are innocent, you should have a reasonable story as to how this happened. Hand over the name.

Nope. They're like oh the car passes through many hands, who knows who stole it, oh well! When stolen cars are recovered they don't even dust them for prints (firsthand experience when we recovered our own stolen, not jacked car).

Absolutely ludicrous and preposterous! The car passes through many hands? Sure, I always gift on vehicles that are given to me for free, totally legit, I get a car, you get a car, everyone gets a car! Oh they should try this in Singapore.