MoCo Mom Arrested for Leaving Kids Alone at Rehoboth Beach

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has devolved to speculation about a stranger's fertility and an Olney Mom smackdown.

You obviously aren't from Olney. This is what we do. Shocking that we don't have our own Real Housewives yet.

People would have to care about Olney for that to happen

Because people care about Atlanta or the OC? Hardly.

Trust me, RHOO would be a hit. First off, you'd have women who are actually married. You could have a mix of SAHMs and working moms. There's wealth along with your standard upper middle class. The summer episodes could be filmed in Bethany (where everyone owns a place already). There's PTA drama, adultery, and backstabbing. The travel team sports moms and dads could spin off an entirely new series. The recently divorced moms in their 40s would be the most fun with their online dating antics...or sleeping around with dads from school.

I'm watching RHONJ right now, and it's a yawnfest. The real life drama in 20832/20833 is far more exciting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has devolved to speculation about a stranger's fertility and an Olney Mom smackdown.

You obviously aren't from Olney. This is what we do. Shocking that we don't have our own Real Housewives yet.

People would have to care about Olney for that to happen

Because people care about Atlanta or the OC? Hardly.

Trust me, RHOO would be a hit. First off, you'd have women who are actually married. You could have a mix of SAHMs and working moms. There's wealth along with your standard upper middle class. The summer episodes could be filmed in Bethany (where everyone owns a place already). There's PTA drama, adultery, and backstabbing. The travel team sports moms and dads could spin off an entirely new series. The recently divorced moms in their 40s would be the most fun with their online dating antics...or sleeping around with dads from school.

I'm watching RHONJ right now, and it's a yawnfest. The real life drama in 20832/20833 is far more exciting.

Yeah. Boy. This sounds thrilling.

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Anonymous wrote:The very act of having the police called and the mom charged proves the kids didn't meet the threshold of "12 or mature enough." Someone called because they were running around and were not under the supervision of an adult. She was wrong.

That might be witch hunt standards. But the reality is, most of the time leaving 8/9 year old kids at home alone for under an hour is not an egregious error. Witch hunting on the other hand is pretty awful.

You think the guy who was concerned about an 8 and 9 year old running in the streets after a dog because mom was gone for an hour was witch hunting?? She used shitty judgment, her kids were not safe alone in the house, they were out in the street and a guy almost hit them/their dog and she was at a restaurant. That's BAD PARENTING.

No. I understand why the man called CPS. I do not understand why the mother was arrested though.

If she had literally just gone down the street to pick up dinner and got delayed (crowds/order not ready/traffic) and thought that her kids were safe inside the house - that was reasonable. The dogs getting out and running off was unexpected and accidental. The kids running after their beloved pets is understandable. Those kids could have ran out into the street after their dogs even if their mom was home at the time. Stuff happens. Accidents happen.

Thankfully, no one was hurt. Perhaps the cops/CPS saw something that has not been reported. But if this was just a matter of kids running after dogs that accidentally got out.....and arresting the mother for daring to be out picking up dinner at the time....that seems over the top to me. These kids weren't toddlers or preschoolers.

This isnt what happened. A pp posted the kids intentionally took the dogs out and were not able to control them. This is why parents need to be avalablr to their kids. Did mom tell them to walk the dog while was gone? If so, very poor judgment on her part.

Assuming this PP knows these people. Do you really think these are the only two people walking dogs at the beach?

No, I don't know them. And of course they're not the only two people walking dogs at the beach. But I encountered two young kids just before the time given on the police report, on the same street, walking two dogs as big as they were, and their ability to handle them appeared questionable. I also saw the mom (they were several doors down from us) a few days later.

I don't personally think it's unreasonable to leave an 8 or 9 year old home alone while picking up dinner. But there are easily half a dozen restaurants within a block or so of their rental. If their mother was really heading five miles away (which means Route 1 traffic, generally awful in season), not so much.

If the mom was routinely allowing the kids to take those large dogs on walks by themselves then I think she was wrong in allowing that. Those children were physically too small to handle the task and they did not have control of the animals. The dogs breaking away from those kids was easily foreseeable and quite likely inevitable - it wasn't so much if but when this would happen.

If this is true, the charges make more sense.

You don't have to name the breed, but do you mean as large as a lab or golden retriever? Bigger?

You named the breed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did she have 2 kids a year apart at age 46

My guess is she is raising her grandchildren or she fostered to adopt them. Fat chance they are her biological kids given her age.

What rock have you been living under. Forty-six too old to have a third and fourth grader? Do the math.

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Anonymous wrote:How did she have 2 kids a year apart at age 46

My guess is she is raising her grandchildren or she fostered to adopt them. Fat chance they are her biological kids given her age.

What rock have you been living under. Forty-six too old to have a third and fourth grader? Do the math.

She's 55

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She's 55 and there's no way she had two kids back to back starting at 46. I'm guessing she adopted a sibling set on her own.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I live in a relatively nice NoVA neighborhood and I leave y rising 4th grader alone. I was basically the last in my group of friends to do so. Maybe people don't tell people like you because you are crazy helicopter-y judge mom.

Would you leave your rising 4th grader alone in charge of his third grade sibling while walking 2 large dogs in a beach neighborhood that isn't where they live? For 2 hours+? Many people are saying 5 miles up Rt 1 would take about an hour- and how long was she planning to stay before the cops arrested her? There's a lot more here than leaving your 4th grader in his house while you run to Giant.

+1 Exactly.

I would not leave a 3rd and 4th grader alone while walking 2 dogs. I have allowed my kids when they were of a similar age to walk our dogs down our beach rental street and back while I was home and watching from the balcony. And that was after I had been up and down the street numerous times with the dogs knowing which houses had dogs and whether the dogs were friendly.

If I had left my kids at the house, I would have put the dogs in their crates. I would not want or expect the kids to walk the dogs while I was gone or let them outside while I was gone. Not at those ages.

If the mom left those kids knowing that they would be outside walking the dogs that was very poor judgement. That was too much responsibility for such young kids.

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Anonymous wrote:She's 55 and there's no way she had two kids back to back starting at 46. I'm guessing she adopted a sibling set on her own.

Really who cares? According to the police report they are her kids. She is their mom.

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I'm just shocked that anyone would leave a rising third and fourth grader alone at a vacation home. Zero familiar neighbors to look out for them or help in case of emergency. Surrounded by strangers. All I can think of is Madeleine McCann.

Seriously, who does this?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I live in a relatively nice NoVA neighborhood and I leave y rising 4th grader alone. I was basically the last in my group of friends to do so. Maybe people don't tell people like you because you are crazy helicopter-y judge mom.

Would you leave your rising 4th grader alone in charge of his third grade sibling while walking 2 large dogs in a beach neighborhood that isn't where they live? For 2 hours+? Many people are saying 5 miles up Rt 1 would take about an hour- and how long was she planning to stay before the cops arrested her? There's a lot more here than leaving your 4th grader in his house while you run to Giant.

+1 Exactly.

I would not leave a 3rd and 4th grader alone while walking 2 dogs. I have allowed my kids when they were of a similar age to walk our dogs down our beach rental street and back while I was home and watching from the balcony. And that was after I had been up and down the street numerous times with the dogs knowing which houses had dogs and whether the dogs were friendly.

If I had left my kids at the house, I would have put the dogs in their crates. I would not want or expect the kids to walk the dogs while I was gone or let them outside while I was gone. Not at those ages.

If the mom left those kids knowing that they would be outside walking the dogs that was very poor judgement. That was too much responsibility for such young kids.

Yes, that is the fact that I think will get her in trouble. Not that she left the kids at home for 45 minutes but that she left them to walk the dogs out in the street.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did she have 2 kids a year apart at age 46

My guess is she is raising her grandchildren or she fostered to adopt them. Fat chance they are her biological kids given her age.

What rock have you been living under. Forty-six too old to have a third and fourth grader? Do the math.

She's not 46. She's 55. She would have been 46 when the first was born. But, there's lots of IVF in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just shocked that anyone would leave a rising third and fourth grader alone at a vacation home. Zero familiar neighbors to look out for them or help in case of emergency. Surrounded by strangers. All I can think of is Madeleine McCann.

Seriously, who does this?!?!

I never did this. But it's possible that she underestimated the time that she would be gone. Maybe she was thinking 20 minutes tops. But it turned out to be closer to an hour.

When she wound up being gone longer than expected and the dogs begged to go out, maybe the kids (who were likely used to walking the dogs at their own house) put the dogs on their leashes and took them out for a walk.

I'm not familiar with Rehobeth streets. Is the street that they were on a main drag or was this a residential beach neighborhood street?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just shocked that anyone would leave a rising third and fourth grader alone at a vacation home. Zero familiar neighbors to look out for them or help in case of emergency. Surrounded by strangers. All I can think of is Madeleine McCann.

Seriously, who does this?!?!

I never did this. But it's possible that she underestimated the time that she would be gone. Maybe she was thinking 20 minutes tops. But it turned out to be closer to an hour.

When she wound up being gone longer than expected and the dogs begged to go out, maybe the kids (who were likely used to walking the dogs at their own house) put the dogs on their leashes and took them out for a walk.

I'm not familiar with Rehobeth streets. Is the street that they were on a main drag or was this a residential beach neighborhood street?

Residential.

I'm really glad I didn't get arrested this summer - I'm sure I left my 11 year old in our beach rental alone while I took my 8 year old to Funland. Of course, I leave both of them home alone regularly (the 11 year old more than the 8 year old, but even still, he has been by himself several times). I still don't see how this warrants an arrest, unless something way bigger than what has been reported was going on.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just shocked that anyone would leave a rising third and fourth grader alone at a vacation home. Zero familiar neighbors to look out for them or help in case of emergency. Surrounded by strangers. All I can think of is Madeleine McCann.

Seriously, who does this?!?!

I never did this. But it's possible that she underestimated the time that she would be gone. Maybe she was thinking 20 minutes tops. But it turned out to be closer to an hour.

When she wound up being gone longer than expected and the dogs begged to go out, maybe the kids (who were likely used to walking the dogs at their own house) put the dogs on their leashes and took them out for a walk.

I'm not familiar with Rehobeth streets. Is the street that they were on a main drag or was this a residential beach neighborhood street?

Doesn't matter. I can't imagine leaving my kids alone in a strange area. We take our kids with us or order delivery. It's not hard. And I can't imagine why this woman opted to leave them behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has devolved to speculation about a stranger's fertility and an Olney Mom smackdown.

You obviously aren't from Olney. This is what we do. Shocking that we don't have our own Real Housewives yet.

People would have to care about Olney for that to happen

Because people care about Atlanta or the OC? Hardly.

Trust me, RHOO would be a hit. First off, you'd have women who are actually married. You could have a mix of SAHMs and working moms. There's wealth along with your standard upper middle class. The summer episodes could be filmed in Bethany (where everyone owns a place already). There's PTA drama, adultery, and backstabbing. The travel team sports moms and dads could spin off an entirely new series. The recently divorced moms in their 40s would be the most fun with their online dating antics...or sleeping around with dads from school.

I'm watching RHONJ right now, and it's a yawnfest. The real life drama in 20832/20833 is far more exciting.

Real Housewives of Sea Colony: are you dowdy? Do you drink too much chardonnay? Maybe too early in the day? Maybe anorexic? Married to a jockstrap? Do you speak in a minotone, nasal voice? Does your face have flat affect - to the extreme? .......

LOLZ.