Posted on 11/26/2017 6:18:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Twenty years after going to jail for leaving her baby in a stroller outside a New York City restaurant, Anette Sørensen is ready to set the record straight.
Anette Sorensen in 1997.Don Halasy In 2012, she published a novel based on the “traumatizing” experience, “A Worm in the Apple” in her native Denmark, and she has just launched a Kickstarter fund to get it translated into English.
“It’s a way of getting back what I never got,” said Sørensen, who feels she was treated unfairly by the city and the press and didn’t get to tell her side of the story. “I would like [it] if I could just say what I think.”
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So you equate a culture where it is acceptable to leave a sleeping baby outside in a stroller while you eat lunch with one where it is acceptable to rape, enslave, and murder infidels?
I had to travel to northern NH for work in 2001 to a small town called Littleton. It was winter and early morning on a school day and I remember seeing the children walking down Main Street to school just like they have done for decades.
How far is school, if it takes them decades to get there?
Its not so much the distance as much as the fact that there is 3 feet of snow and its up hill both ways.
I’ve been in law enforcement since 1975, and everybody has a story. Everybody in prison is absolutely innocent.
I’m saying it’s a stupid argument
Had she paid one second of attention she would have noticed NOONE else was doing that
I believe it is still common in Scandinavian countries to let babies nap outside within sight if not reach of mom or dad. So I understand how she might have thought she could follow the custom here.
People as stupid as this woman should be made to pass a test: Make a sentence out of these three words, “hare’’, ‘’hunter’’, field’’. If they can’t then they shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. (the answer is “The hare was shot by the hunter in the field’’.)
LOL! (Snort!)
Could it be that she was so used to Denmark’s customs that she didn’t notice or think twice? Have you ever been to a foreign country that had customs different than your own and you committed a faux pas because you just didn’t know? For example, a young lady I know spent a semester in Italy and learned the hard way that a woman never smiles at or greets a strange man unless she wants attention from him. In Tennessee where she is from, smiling at and saying “Good morning” to strangers is just being polite. Also, in Italy, you never clean your plate unless you want more food on it. Leave a little on the plate when you are full. Customs differ.
I’ve spent copious amounts of time in foreign countries. I paid close attention to the mores and the customs
Okay, so you are the perfect tourist and she wasn’t.
That’s no joke. Sad.
No. My parents taught me situational awareness at an early age. Because my job required me to go to places where customs and cultures were different, I was trained to pay attention
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