DC parents leave kids in car for wine tasting

[Anonymous]

Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

With money you can get away with anything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:here's another wrinkle-
my stbx grew up in a house where the parents partied (hey - it was the good old days, right?) and regularly left the kids do their own devices, and I'm talking toddlers and babies. MIL was a functioning alcoholic and FIL totally enabled her. STBX grew up in a highly unstable (but upper SES, educated) household and he never had any real stability. The stories he used to tell me were bat-shit crazy. But he thought it was all fine. Pretty funny in fact. He did have a nanny during the week, but not in the evenings or on the weekends. Anyhoo, as an adult he's a hot mess, has BPD, can't hold a job, maintain relationships, never takes personal responsibility for his choices, etc etc.

Not saying that one incident is going to scar your kid for life, but if this is their parenting style, then there are real ramifications for the kids. No joke.

Interesting. Back in the the sixties my grandparents left heir four year old in his crib while they went next door to the neighbors house for a party. The house was robbed. Not only did the police not give a damn that a four year old was alone in the house, they interviewed him as a witness!

He's fine today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

It's too bad really, because they'll think they can keep getting away with this crap. Poor kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

It's too bad really, because they'll think they can keep getting away with this crap. Poor kids.

I kind of doubt it. They were publicly arrested and humiliated. Think it is lesson learned for this family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

It's too bad really, because they'll think they can keep getting away with this crap. Poor kids.

I kind of doubt it. They were publicly arrested and humiliated. Think it is lesson learned for this family.

And how. Man, oh man, is this a life-changer. Almost makes me feel sorry for them, until I remember that the kids sat for 58 minutes alone in a car when it was 28 degrees out. So they could engage in some pretentious bullshit activity. That snaps me back to reality pretty quick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:here's another wrinkle-
my stbx grew up in a house where the parents partied (hey - it was the good old days, right?) and regularly left the kids do their own devices, and I'm talking toddlers and babies. MIL was a functioning alcoholic and FIL totally enabled her. STBX grew up in a highly unstable (but upper SES, educated) household and he never had any real stability. The stories he used to tell me were bat-shit crazy. But he thought it was all fine. Pretty funny in fact. He did have a nanny during the week, but not in the evenings or on the weekends. Anyhoo, as an adult he's a hot mess, has BPD, can't hold a job, maintain relationships, never takes personal responsibility for his choices, etc etc.

Not saying that one incident is going to scar your kid for life, but if this is their parenting style, then there are real ramifications for the kids. No joke.

Interesting. Back in the the sixties my grandparents left heir four year old in his crib while they went next door to the neighbors house for a party. The house was robbed. Not only did the police not give a damn that a four year old was alone in the house, they interviewed him as a witness!

He's fine today.

Bs. No 4-year old is in a crib. Wtf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

It's too bad really, because they'll think they can keep getting away with this crap. Poor kids.

I kind of doubt it. They were publicly arrested and humiliated. Think it is lesson learned for this family.

I sure hope so. I imagine daycare drop off and work are going to be embarrassing for the foreseeable future. GOOD! I hope every time they feel humiliated they realize how much worse it could have been if something happened to those poor kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

What makes you say they have money?

[Anonymous]

Glad they got the kids back.

[Anonymous]

I knew they'd get the kids back before the next hearing; maybe they didn't have them for a day or 2 as CPS checked out the house and talked to them about parenting. The DC foster care system has bigger fish to fry than 2 wealthy, nerdy parents with means who decided that for once they didn't want to be nerds sitting at home on Saturday and would instead hit up a wine tasting, kids be damned. I bet CPS transferred the kids back and said "next time please get a sitter so we don't have to go through the drama when there are kids being beaten and going hungry who need our attention, thanks."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad they got the kids back.

For the kids' sake, I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

I'm not suggesting that they're good parents or that they care about their kids -- jury is out on that one -- but I think they likely care mightily about their reputations esp. at work. For that reason, I doubt they'll do something like this again. They're still awaiting a hearing so who knows what the punishment will be for this incident. But the humiliation of this will follow them around for a while -- as people talk behind their backs, there's a 50+ pg thread on them on DCUM, and every friend and acquaintance from coworkers to parents who don't even know them but see them at preschool will be looking at them extra hard when they're out with their kids to see how they treat them, how their kids interact with them etc. Plus I bet each of them has 3-4 people in their lives (not just family -- but people are work etc) who are blunt -- blunt enough that they have asked or will put them on the spot eventually and ask "so how did this happen. Why did you and DH/DW think this was ok?" All of this "attention" will keep them from doing this kind of thing again, though for the kids' sake I hope they aren't abusers because then they'll just make the kids' lives rough at home outside the public eye. I mean the kids are 2-3, not a lot of impulse control at that age even with the best behaved kids; I hope for the kids' sake that the parents don't hit etc. bc now that they'll avoid the public for a while -- there will be a LOT of time at home esp on weekends when the kids will work their last nerve over normal childlike things and they'll have to deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different poster here, also saw her this week and they have the kids (don't want to say the context to out myself.) she looked like shit and seemed pretty shaken up by it. Daughter seemed clingier than usual but otherwise fine.

Guessing they have some good lawyers.

I would imagine so...

It's too bad really, because they'll think they can keep getting away with this crap. Poor kids.

I kind of doubt it. They were publicly arrested and humiliated. Think it is lesson learned for this family.

I hope you are right.