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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This eight year old child was dropped off by her parent and entered the elementary school that day, leaving the class and school un-noticed (for whatever driven reason).
 
This may have ended tragically had not a Good Samaritan intervened and called the police. Let's not loose sight of that point and hold the parent's responsible.

Surely it would have been a newsworthy story if she had died. It is no less a newsworthy story that, with guardian angel help, she lived. [/quote]

This is not a life-or-death situation.  It's an 8 year old walking home from school in broad daylight at 9:15 AM.  Sheesh.  Do you expect that a school has posted guards at every entrance?  The child should be scolded for leaving the school building without permission, and the administrators need to investigate the alleged bullying incident. [/quote]

I'm surprised to read this. An eight year old out on busy Beauregard Street and it's intersections? What if she tried to cross and got hit by a car? What if she had wondered a tenth of a mile in back of Ramsey to Holmes Run, either the Trial or the Stream? What if instead of helpful person aiding her, she was picked up by a bad person, injuring or kidnapping her? The later occurs all the time; many, many examples of fowl play with children.

When she was out there, it was a life or death situation. Any parent knows that. It's only in retrospect we see otherwise. [/quote]

Um, she is 8, not 3.

I'm not big on the whole "FREE RANGE KIDS" bit, but even I know an 8 yo is capable of crossing a street and not wandering into a stream. Give me a break and stop sounding so unhinged.[/quote]

Ad hominum much?[/quote]

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