DC parents leave kids in car for wine tasting
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Anonymous
Hansel and Gretel were free range and I think they would have been tasty had they not escaped |
Anonymous
| The inability of the parents to understand what they did wrong in the moment probably did not work in their favor with the cops or the judge. |
Anonymous
| Didn't read each post but are the parents still employed after all of this? |
Anonymous
I think being fired after all this would be going too far. Bad/neglectful as they may be, they are prob pretty good at their jobs. Hence can afford a 1 mil house in Dupont Circle |
Anonymous
Despite currently being tried in the court of public opinion and the media, they are still innocent until proven guilty. Being accused of a crime is not grounds for dismissal unless you are emploeyd in a highly visible and political position. Being convicted of a felony is often grounds for termination so it really matters how this plays out. But losing their jobs now would be premature . |
Anonymous
I think one of them is a fed employee; but in general, most people are at-will employees, so being arrested could certainly be grounds for dismissal. If you are at-will, your boss can fire you because they don't like the tie you wore to work. |
Anonymous
The mother is a federal employee. In order to be terminated/disciplined, there would have to be a nexus with her work responsibilities -- she would have to be responsible for safeguarding kids or people with diminished capacity or her job description would have to have a morals clause or some such thing. Feds can't easily be disciplined for off-duty conduct. |
Anonymous
When you were born they must have left the empathy gene on the cutting room floor. So you want the parents to lose their means of support before trial for an offense i'm related to their jobs and face total ruination of their lives? I assume that you, your family members and your friends have never made a big mistake, ever. I am appalled by the parents' action but wont be a cheerleader to wreck their lives forever. |
Anonymous
| I want to see their mugshot, dammit. Where are the goods DC?!!??!?!? |
Anonymous
The scary thing is that there are TWO of them, which is why the court had to take the children away. TWO parents with such appalling judgment. Both kids could have been kidnapped within seconds. And the parents are around the corner in a wine bar? |
Anonymous
| Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but I feel like it's just as cruel to take the parents away from these kids (and their home) for 2 weeks than it is to have left them in a car for an hour. So I hope there is some other evidence at the home that indicates that they are dangerous parents, to justify this (not just stupid ones who need some parenting education). Number one consideration should be continuing the routines of the children and their connections with their family. Wouldn't it be better to have someone in the house watching the parents and kids together? It must seem to the kids like their parents have been snatched from them. If they are alcoholics and beating up their kids then yes, they should be kept away. I think I'll be flamed, but I just can't bear the thought of those kids crying for their parents. |
Anonymous
| I feel like they always run the mugshots when the parents are low SES? Where are the mugshots? |
Anonymous
In terms of having someone in the house watching the parents and kids together -- I don't believe the court/foster system can provide that beyond having a social worker visit for an hr or two per day -- at which time everyone will be on good behavior, though the court can allow for the appointment of a family member to provide that service. It's likely that there is no family in the area that can do this; his family is likely in France and hers is likely on the west coast -- maybe they just couldn't get here before the initial hearing (or weren't even called bc their son and daughter thought -- no big deal, the judge will say we're free to go and have the kids back in the next hr). Any family lawyers out there -- any info re what info the courts need in order to take kids away? I'm thinking it's something more than leaving the kids in the car for an hr. If they wanted to prevent that kind of thing from happening again before the next hearing -- couldn't the judge have ordered that the kids may only be taken to school/daycare and back and can go no where else, and the rest of the time 1 parent must be with them? That prevents the kids from being left anywhere. I think maybe they found some other evidence of abuse. Who knows -- maybe when paramedics checked the kids, they saw signs of physical abuse or suspected it. I don't know if an investigator would have been allowed in the home prior to the hearing, but I'm guessing yes there was a warrant -- so maybe they saw things in the home that were alarming and suggested abuse or neglect happening there. |
Anonymous
How often does a thief/paedo walk by a locked car and decide "hmm, I am going to smash this window in broad daylight and snatch these kids"?? |
Anonymous
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I wonder what Ris management think of all this?
They are getting lots of attention, maybe not such good attention, but their name is now all over the place. |