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

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% guarantee the kids knocked and ran from a house they know--like an auntie, grandma or neighborhood eminence. With a little shoe leather these kids can be identified. And then sure as sh*t they need to be sentenced and I want to hear what education and life skills they will be offered, and what consequences they will face if they don't take advantage of their 2nd chance. We must change the law on these heinous crimes, the anonymity and clean records of youth in this city, and the revolving door.

I agree they did not drop her with a rando. But, I appreciate that she was left somewhere safe where she would be taken into warmth. Still pondering the paper/pen/note - someone had their school bag. These kids were young.

I agree it's LIKELY (not certain) that the kids know the residents of the house and/or were reasonably certain that someone would answer the door and get the baby promptly. But still--you don't just leave a 4-month old outdoors and hope/expect that someone will get the baby.

And as a parent you don’t just leave your 4 month old alone in the car with it idling while you run into a store and shop. She didn’t display any more care for her own baby than the people that took her car did.

What an absurd statement.

What so absurd about it? Leaving your baby in a car with it running while you go shop is taking care of your baby?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% guarantee the kids knocked and ran from a house they know--like an auntie, grandma or neighborhood eminence. With a little shoe leather these kids can be identified. And then sure as sh*t they need to be sentenced and I want to hear what education and life skills they will be offered, and what consequences they will face if they don't take advantage of their 2nd chance. We must change the law on these heinous crimes, the anonymity and clean records of youth in this city, and the revolving door.

I agree they did not drop her with a rando. But, I appreciate that she was left somewhere safe where she would be taken into warmth. Still pondering the paper/pen/note - someone had their school bag. These kids were young.

I agree it's LIKELY (not certain) that the kids know the residents of the house and/or were reasonably certain that someone would answer the door and get the baby promptly. But still--you don't just leave a 4-month old outdoors and hope/expect that someone will get the baby.

And as a parent you don’t just leave your 4 month old alone in the car with it idling while you run into a store and shop. She didn’t display any more care for her own baby than the people that took her car did.

What an absurd statement.

I agree with that PP above. She showed zero regard for the baby. Car thieves did show some interest in baby's safety (if only so they wouldn't get charged with something worse).

Also even if the perfume store is soooo urgent you can pop out the bucket seat and take it with you or put it in a stroller caddy. Or just not do that unnecessary outing at that exact moment. A million options.

I kind of feel for the ppl who stole the idling car and found out, oh no there's a baby in here and had to figure out what to do!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% guarantee the kids knocked and ran from a house they know--like an auntie, grandma or neighborhood eminence. With a little shoe leather these kids can be identified. And then sure as sh*t they need to be sentenced and I want to hear what education and life skills they will be offered, and what consequences they will face if they don't take advantage of their 2nd chance. We must change the law on these heinous crimes, the anonymity and clean records of youth in this city, and the revolving door.

I agree they did not drop her with a rando. But, I appreciate that she was left somewhere safe where she would be taken into warmth. Still pondering the paper/pen/note - someone had their school bag. These kids were young.

I agree it's LIKELY (not certain) that the kids know the residents of the house and/or were reasonably certain that someone would answer the door and get the baby promptly. But still--you don't just leave a 4-month old outdoors and hope/expect that someone will get the baby.

And as a parent you don’t just leave your 4 month old alone in the car with it idling while you run into a store and shop. She didn’t display any more care for her own baby than the people that took her car did.

What an absurd statement.

What so absurd about it? Leaving your baby in a car with it running while you go shop is taking care of your baby?

Even if it was car trouble related, take your baby with you! Car seats are so much easier to clip in and out now, that it would’ve been a matter of 30 seconds to bring the baby in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right, why isn't the license number released?

My first thought too. Wouldn't the owner know the license plate?

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The carjackers had more sense than the mother. Poor child!

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Anonymous wrote:Is all the blame here toward the mom warranted? This is what I read:


2D- Kidnapping / Stolen Auto

The Second District is investigating a Kidnapping and Stolen Auto that occurred on Friday, January 5, 2024, at approximately 1803 hours in the Unit block of 3000 M Street NW.

The complainant was traveling with her four-month-old daughter when a tire deflated on her rental vehicle, a white Jeep. She pulled over in the 3000 block of M St NW and exited the vehicle to ask for help. While outside the Jeep, which she left running, an unknown suspect entered the vehicle and drove away with her four-month-old daughter westbound on M St NW.

At approximately 1853 hours, MPD officers received a call that an unknown individual left the child, still in her car seat, in the 1500 block of 28th St SE with a note stating that the baby had been lost from Georgetown. After knocking on the door, the suspect fled. No lookout is available. The homeowners then took the child to the Sixth District Police substation. There is no available lookout for the complainant's vehicle at this time except that it was a white jeep of an unknown make and model.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Command Information Center at 202-727-9099 or send an anonymous text tip 50411

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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.

What witnesses? Do you have a link (l googled but didn’t find). Her behavior sounds too crazy to be true.

NP here. I read that in the comments of the Washingtonian problems insta page. I think it is in this particular post. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1vV3uBRXM6/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The mother lied to the police, witnesses on social media reported that the mother was shopping and stopping to smell scents and test out items to purchase. The mother is the main source of culpability.

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?

(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).

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?

A rental with a broken gas cap seems odd.

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Who will get custody of the child? I assume it will be with city services until the investigation is complete.

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Anonymous wrote:Who will get custody of the child? I assume it will be with city services until the investigation is complete.

Not a chance. The baby is back with mom.

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Anonymous wrote:Who will get custody of the child? I assume it will be with city services until the investigation is complete.

MPD said the child had been reunited with the mother (at the press conference).

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Anonymous wrote:Is all the blame here toward the mom warranted? This is what I read:


2D- Kidnapping / Stolen Auto

The Second District is investigating a Kidnapping and Stolen Auto that occurred on Friday, January 5, 2024, at approximately 1803 hours in the Unit block of 3000 M Street NW.

The complainant was traveling with her four-month-old daughter when a tire deflated on her rental vehicle, a white Jeep. She pulled over in the 3000 block of M St NW and exited the vehicle to ask for help. While outside the Jeep, which she left running, an unknown suspect entered the vehicle and drove away with her four-month-old daughter westbound on M St NW.

At approximately 1853 hours, MPD officers received a call that an unknown individual left the child, still in her car seat, in the 1500 block of 28th St SE with a note stating that the baby had been lost from Georgetown. After knocking on the door, the suspect fled. No lookout is available. The homeowners then took the child to the Sixth District Police substation. There is no available lookout for the complainant's vehicle at this time except that it was a white jeep of an unknown make and model.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Command Information Center at 202-727-9099 or send an anonymous text tip 50411

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

What witnesses? Do you have a link (l googled but didn’t find). Her behavior sounds too crazy to be true.

NP here. I read that in the comments of the Washingtonian problems insta page. I think it is in this particular post. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1vV3uBRXM6/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The mother lied to the police, witnesses on social media reported that the mother was shopping and stopping to smell scents and test out items to purchase. The mother is the main source of culpability.

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?

(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).

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)?

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.

I remember this! https://time.com/3693641/judging-couple-locked-kids-in-car/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% guarantee the kids knocked and ran from a house they know--like an auntie, grandma or neighborhood eminence. With a little shoe leather these kids can be identified. And then sure as sh*t they need to be sentenced and I want to hear what education and life skills they will be offered, and what consequences they will face if they don't take advantage of their 2nd chance. We must change the law on these heinous crimes, the anonymity and clean records of youth in this city, and the revolving door.

I agree they did not drop her with a rando. But, I appreciate that she was left somewhere safe where she would be taken into warmth. Still pondering the paper/pen/note - someone had their school bag. These kids were young.

I agree it's LIKELY (not certain) that the kids know the residents of the house and/or were reasonably certain that someone would answer the door and get the baby promptly. But still--you don't just leave a 4-month old outdoors and hope/expect that someone will get the baby.

And as a parent you don’t just leave your 4 month old alone in the car with it idling while you run into a store and shop. She didn’t display any more care for her own baby than the people that took her car did.

What an absurd statement.

I agree with that PP above. She showed zero regard for the baby. Car thieves did show some interest in baby's safety (if only so they wouldn't get charged with something worse).

Also even if the perfume store is soooo urgent you can pop out the bucket seat and take it with you or put it in a stroller caddy. Or just not do that unnecessary outing at that exact moment. A million options.

I kind of feel for the ppl who stole the idling car and found out, oh no there's a baby in here and had to figure out what to do!

You guys are trauma bonding with some masochistic Stockholm Syndrome for people trapped in violent cities due to high interest rates. It is amazing watching this thread excuse away a car theft. Oh at least they aren’t murderers, Oh at least they didn’t car jack this terrible horrible stupid neglectful mother. You guys deserve to live like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Who will get custody of the child? I assume it will be with city services until the investigation is complete.

Why on earth would you assume or desire that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is all the blame here toward the mom warranted? This is what I read:


2D- Kidnapping / Stolen Auto

The Second District is investigating a Kidnapping and Stolen Auto that occurred on Friday, January 5, 2024, at approximately 1803 hours in the Unit block of 3000 M Street NW.

The complainant was traveling with her four-month-old daughter when a tire deflated on her rental vehicle, a white Jeep. She pulled over in the 3000 block of M St NW and exited the vehicle to ask for help. While outside the Jeep, which she left running, an unknown suspect entered the vehicle and drove away with her four-month-old daughter westbound on M St NW.

At approximately 1853 hours, MPD officers received a call that an unknown individual left the child, still in her car seat, in the 1500 block of 28th St SE with a note stating that the baby had been lost from Georgetown. After knocking on the door, the suspect fled. No lookout is available. The homeowners then took the child to the Sixth District Police substation. There is no available lookout for the complainant's vehicle at this time except that it was a white jeep of an unknown make and model.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Command Information Center at 202-727-9099 or send an anonymous text tip 50411

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

What witnesses? Do you have a link (l googled but didn’t find). Her behavior sounds too crazy to be true.

NP here. I read that in the comments of the Washingtonian problems insta page. I think it is in this particular post. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1vV3uBRXM6/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The mother lied to the police, witnesses on social media reported that the mother was shopping and stopping to smell scents and test out items to purchase. The mother is the main source of culpability.

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?

(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).

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)?

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.

I remember this! https://time.com/3693641/judging-couple-locked-kids-in-car/

I hadn't heard this one! The last line of that article is great.

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MPD made clear that the child had been reunited with her mom last night.

Do you know what happens to kids in foster care?

I think the mom should be cited for attempted neglect and providing false info to LE but for the sake of the baby she is far better off with her, she may even be breastfeeding.

Y'all are insane.

[Anonymous]

In Arlington an illegally parked car near PC mall was towed with the kids left inside. All kinds of things can happen.