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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad parenting.  Not a crime.  Sheesh, what is up with the neighbors?  If they were so concerned, they should have knocked on her door or let the kid stay warm in their house until the mom came out.  I've seen plenty of bad parenting out in public - I'm not going to call the police on the parents. Now the mom may lose her job and god knows what else - which will be great for the kids.  [/quote]

It was 10:30 at night and who knows how long the child was out there.... Maybe hours? Maybe the neighbors watched for hours and finally called the police. I would have to. No, I would not take the child into my house. The mom doesn't seem sane and I would hate for her to say that I took her child into my house without permission. I think she deserves every consequence she gets coming to here. Obviously the police felt enough harm for the child to file charges. Why are people not understanding that we don't know the whole story? Obviously more to it than this.... Maybe the sister and brother told the police other alarming things[/quote]

But if you were so concerned, why wouldn't you go out and talk to the child yourself?  Rather than watching for hours from the comfort of your own house?  Especially if it's your own neighbor?  This is the definition of a busybody who pretends to act out of concern for the child, but really, they are not doing the child any favors.

Of course it was wrong to lock her child out of the house.  But the police didn't have to get involved.  DH and his siblings regularly got locked out of their house for hours as kids.  It was terrible, and very poor parenting.  But a reason for the police to be called?  No.  [/quote]

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