Mom Faces Trial for Leaving Child in Car (kid never out of sight or more than 10 yards away)

AP ^ | 3/11/08 | Don Babwin

[I see my hands]

"an Internet flash point for people who either..."

I don't see that. If the facts are accurately presented the analysis is cut and dry.

PS: Always remember and never forget to impeach W for domestic spying!

[taxcontrol]

So what the rules are saying is that if you let yourself get pushed around, you get the same punishment as kicking the other guys butt.

I’m not sure this was the intent of zero tolerance.

[Red_Devil 232]

Treffly Coyne is not the kind of mother who will teach her children to back down when she knows they have been wronged. “It was after I talked to the kids when I got their mom out of jail that I knew where this was going” Tim Janecyk said “The first thing those kids said to me was ‘dad, what the police did to mom was wrong’ I knew they needed to see us fight this.”

[Doctor Raoul]

Google "Angel Brudnicki" who seems to be the Community Service Officer. Looks like her boyfriend was the cop that responded.

If that and what else has been posted is at all true, Crestwood is toast.

[kidd]

...to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer...

"obstructing a peace officer" was thrown in because there is NO WAY that child endangerment will be proven. The article does not mention why she was given this charge.

[ArrogantBustard]

WTF is a a community resource officer ?

[rednesss]

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[beltfed308]

Unfortunately, the three other little girls, horrified to see their mother arrested, were not taken into protective custody. They were completely ignored by the Crestwood Police and walked away terrified, crying and left on their own.

I'm from the government and I'm here to help. What idiots!

[AppyPappy]

I wonder what the real story is

[avg_freeper]

"If I were going on a shopping spree then, yes, I would deserve arrest,"

I imagine that she'll soon be going on that shopping spree. On the taxpayer's dime.

[Responsibility2nd]

Officers then went to her car and started the engine with the baby inside -- "exposing my child to carbon monoxide poisoning," Coyne said. She assumed the other girls were in police custody.

But they weren't.

"The police abandoned my other daughters at the Wal-Mart," said Janecyk, who eventually found them seated on a bench in the Wal-Mart. "I asked them why they didn't ask for help, but they said the police scared them."

I'd be suing the crap outta the cops and the city for child endangerment.

[Neidermeyer]

Especially these fat stupid women who have no business being cops in the first place. NYC is crawling with these bitches.
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My uncle spent the last few days of his life contesting a huge fine from the “garbage police” in NYC ,, he was confined to the house as he needed Oxygen 24*7 .. someone put a loose hubcap from the street in his garbage can... being aluminum it should have been in the recycle bin... My uncle was a NYC detective for 30 years and he dies fighting the system over garbage! WHAT A COUNTRY!

[Neidermeyer]

“community service officer” - WTF is that?
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In Florida at least a “community service officer” is the cop assigned to visiting juvenile delinquents at their homes ,, very similar to a parole officer..

[ozaukeemom]

me too

[joe fonebone]

I agree with what you posted 100%....the problem with our current crop of lib dems is old people...not because they are old, but the damn kennedy democrats that “ have always been democrats, and always will be”...ask some of these senile morons if they support abortion on demand, and they will say no....ask them if they support higher taxes, and they will say no....tell them their democrat candidate supports both, and ask them why they vote democrat, and the answer will be “i have voted democrat all my life, and i always will”.......idiots who complain but do not have the common sense to vote for true change.

[The Electrician]

I want to know how the Police Chief managed to make these comments while simultaneously declining to comment.

Apparently he only "suggested" things instead of "commenting on" things.

Well.. He could have been commenting on his own time

[stentorian conservative]

Yep, thats what I thought too. Now there are THREE kids at risk. They hand out titles of authority like candy it seems.

[HeadOn]

In every-day English, “Rent-a-cop”.

[absolootezer0]

so child in car, parent out of car = unattended.
zero tolerance.

so next time i get gas i should take my kids out of the car as well?

[fredhead]

The problem today is that nobody wants to take the required responsibility. Your kid falls off his bicycle and breaks his arm. Who is responsible? Schwinn, for building an inherently unstable vehicle for the child to ride!!!!

The government is going too far in trying to protect the sheeple. Look at the cost of a car today. How much of that cost is because of government-required safety devices? The best safety device in a car is a good, sensible, responsible driver who also maintains his vehicle. But wait!!!! Nobody wants to be responsible!!!