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Posted on 10/22/2008 7:58:43 PM PDT by metmom
Two small children were photographed playing on the edge of a rooftop in a bizarre child endangerment investigation that has led to the arrest of a New Jersey mother, MyFOXNY.com reported.
The disturbing photos, taken last Thursday by a neighbor, showed the toddlers — a boy and a girl — walking around on the roof of a Jersey City apartment building and even sitting on the edge, sometimes looking down some 30 feet to the ground below.
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the mother had a point...it was a mistake... she was not home...the babysitter screwed up......and WHY did the neighbor go grab her camera instead of racing to the roof to protect the children?..
Folks, this kind of criminally negligent “parenting” is why the cords on your kichen appliances are about 9 inches long.
One mother had a point, maybe.
The kids shouldn’t have been on the roof in the first place.
The parents are legally adults and they should have been acting like them. Why should the neighbor have been responsible? The blame belongs on the woman and her boyfriend.
Sorry, no sympathy from me for them.
it doesn’t matter because if they fall BO will show up touch them & they will walk like Lazarus
gack......
Now I need to go look up a nice homeowner shoots home invader thread before I go to bed.
I agree about the neighbor. I’m certainly not going to beat her up. She probably had a cell phone right there and snapped a photo in a state of shock... Maybe she’s seen other things like this?
And for crying out loud! One second changed things? How about the one second more that could have changed things, too? Self-centered ingrates.
Does Lazarus have a limp?
I’ll bet there were two neighbors involved: One person ran for help and the other took the picture.
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HOLY CRAP.
Just looking at that photo makes my bowels loosen with terror.
Poor little babies. What the f—k is WRONG with people these days?
The grandmother of the children told MyFOXNY.com that Sasha Taveras had a friend over who wanted to smoke a cigarette on the roof, but they accidentally left the door open.
So while they were out on the roof, smoking their *cigarette*, who was inside watching the kids? And if there's one door opening up onto the roof, how did they not notice the kids come out of it while the "adults" were up there smoking? If those kids followed them out the door why did they go back inside and leave them up there? Or did the kids go out on the roof after they smoked the cigarettes and came back inside and how did they get out without being noticed?
“It was a mistake,” Grecia Taveras told MyFOXNY.com. “It was a mistake that just should not have happened, just one second that changed the rest of our lives.”
It was not a *mistake*; it was negligence plain and simple.
The distraught family said they want to know why the unidentified neighbor was more interested in taking the pictures than trying to get them off the roof.
And the distraught family never noticed that the kids were missing?
Blame shifting. That's all it is. Poor victims....
Gag...
When my son was about 2-4 years old he was a great escape artist. For two years we had many hair-raising experiences with him.
One day a neighbor knocked on our door and explained that our son was on the roof. I’d laid him down for a nap, thought he was sleeping and he used the opportunity to slip out of his window.
This was not the first time this had happened and my husband had finally had enough. He jammed a piece of wood in the window so he couldn’t do it again.
A few weeks later a friend saw the piece of wood blocking the window, declared it a fire hazard and angrily told me that if I didn’t remove it at that moment, she was calling CPS.
We had a knock-down-drag-out fight right then and there. I told her in no uncertain terms that I was going to protect my son from himself and that I wasn’t going to be picking up his broken body off the ground. She told me that I should watch him. I responded that it was stupid to expect a mother to go without sleep (he’d done it in the middle of the night once), go without bathing (he’d crawled out of a 1st story window several months earlier while I was in the shower... he was “napping”) and to sit by her child’s side as he slept. NOBODY can keep watch 24 hours.
Our friendship was over and my son survived his early childhood. He’s now a healthy, loving teenager... who also happens to be one of the best “natural climbers” ever to walk into our local climbing gym. (He can also walk on his hands!) :-)
Kids are amazing, fearless creatures. They’re also terrifying. Some of them are so bold in their curiosity and confidence that I believe it’s only by the grace of G-d that we don’t have tragic stories as the main headline every day. I give a “hats off” to any parent who’s raised such a daring soul.
I can relate. Many years ago, I left my 2 year old son sound asleep in the care of my husband in our home one night while running a quick errand to his parents’ house nearby. I am gone 25’, and the phone rings. The cops had just wakened up my husband, who had apparently fallen asleep, shining their lights in his eyes.
Our son had gotten up, taken off his diaper, opened the locked front door, and was discovered by neighbors we didn’t know strolling up the block pushing the lawn edger in the thick fog with no drawers on. Singing a nursery rhyme.
Today, they would have confiscated the kid, but the police took pity on my husband and returned the little Houdini to his bed. That was the last time Dad babysat in the evening for a very long time.
My son now has a three year old of his own who also has escape artist tendencies, so I tell him it’s just karma.
It's true that it is entirely the fault of the mother/aunt and her "friend" that the children were on the roof.
However, I also think that there's something seriously wrong with a person who sees little children in a dangerous situation and runs for a camera. What, the neighbor wanted to have a million-dollar vid to sell if one of the kids fell? What the bleepin' FReep is wrong with people?
FREERIDERS.....we never have such troubles!!!
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The same thing happened to me. Just a few minutes after I left the house, my son opened the front door, but went next door to the neighbor's house, expecting me to be there.
The front door knob was locked, but it turned freely from the inside. When the door closed behind him, he was locked out. Luckily the neighbor was home and heard Derrick's little knock. Who knows where he would have gone next!?
No, but I once had a cat go explore an open skylight and fall out, slide down the slate roof and land in the gutter.
He was smart enough to stay very still until discovered and rescued.
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