Agree the moms story doesn't make sense. How can a car with a flat tire be driven miles and miles (by the carjackers)? Why was she seen in La Labo by multiple witnesses if she was just checking the tire? Why did she stop there, instead of pull into a side street or something? |
I can just imagine the Amber alert: Be on the lookout for a White Jeep being driven by some people. |
(The only way the moms story makes sense is if she knows she was in the wrong for leaving her baby alone in a running car, and she is desperate to reflect that blame, and that's what she came up with). |
And they could read and write. +1 for the public school system. |
AH tweeted the partial plate. It's in this thread. MPD should have publicized. Gas door being broken off was distinctive. |
I was wondering if they are Hardy or MacArthur kids... |
Dumb because there were cameras and witnesses. Lying to the police is a crime. As is leaving a 4 month old unattended in DC. Anyone know the mom if she is local? Gossip tends to get around DC, esp Georgetown, if she lives there. Or was it established that she was a tourist since car was a rental? |
Did she not have a cell phone? |
You mean the thieves drove from Georgetown to SE (probably via through Virginia) on a flat tire, with sparks flying everywhere once they quickly would have killed the rims and wheels, no one calling it in to 911, no one noticing the awful noise? Not possible. |
It is highly likely this is what happened. Mom panicked realizing that she was going to be in trouble for leaving her baby unattended in an idling car while she shopped and came up with a story. I’m a former prosecutor and while these perps if caught will probably be charged with kidnapping and theft, I would plead them out to theft (this wasn’t a carjacking if she was in the store shopping) and that’s it. I would be more incensed at Mom for being so reckless and endangering her baby, and would have no issue prosecuting her. |
What could the mom be prosecuted for (assuming she left the baby in the car to shop)? |
+1. That doesn’t make sense. There are witnesses and the people who worked at the store - so far no one has mentioned her asking for help with a fire problem. |
Of course because you’re misogynistic. |
Second Degree Cruelty to Children (this is a bit of a stretch but it fits); Attempted Neglect. There was a case in DC like 10 years ago where parents left their kids in the car while they were at a wine tasting and they were charged with attempted neglect. The car wasn’t running in that case and no one stole that car and took the kids to SE. |
Wtf?? I am arguably the angriest feminist on this board - bordering on misandry I loathe patriarchy and misogyny so much - but I find this woman’s actions INDEFENSIBLE!! YOU DO NOT LEAVE A FOUR MONTH OLD BABY ALONE IN A RUNNING UNLOCKED CAR - or even a shut off locked car! You DO NOT leave babies alone!! Zero misogyny implicated by my utter contempt for this woman, flat tire or no flat tire. |