Posted on 08/25/2018 10:47:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A woman from Wilmette, Ill., found herself under investigation because her eight-year-old daughter was spotted walking her dog around the block by herself.
According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, the police showed up at Corey Widen’s door after an anonymous caller contacted them to report that the girl had been walking alone. Although no charges were filed, Widen was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services over concerns that the walk meant that her daughter might be being neglected.
“For something like this to happen to me, there’s something really wrong,” Widen said. “The funny thing is . . . I’m a joke with my friends because my kids are around me all the time.”
Widen also told the Chicago Tribune that she can actually see most of her daughter’s route through her windows at home, so it wasn’t like she wasn’t keeping an eye on her.
It might sound ridiculous, but this is far from the first time that something like this has happened. As the Chicago Tribune notes, many other parents have had the police called on them for seemingly innocuous things such as leaving their children in the car for a few minutes on a cool day or allowing them to play in parks alone.
Widen was eventually cleared, as she should have been, but these kinds of investigations should not be happening in the first place. They are, for one thing, very strenuous. According to an article in Reason, a lot had to be done before Widen was able to be cleared. Investigators had to talk to everyone from her children to her other family members to her pediatrician — which is a total waste not only of their time, but also of government resources.
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When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, there was always one or two kids in my class whose parents wouldn’t let then participate in gym, eat cupcakes when someone brought them, and so on. Those parents are now running the world.
In the 1950’s America had half the population it does today so if the percentage of crazies is directly related to the population numbers there half as many crazies in the 50’s as today. If the population doubles again the next 75 years we will have twice the crazies (or more) than we have today.
Kinda makes me glad I’ll never see that.
Well said Minutegal! Times have changed.
“I was raised in a western suburb of Chicago in the forties and fifties, and in those days you could go anywhere safely alone as a child, ranging, playing, biking here-and-there in all your free time....however, even then, as a young girl I experienced a man sitting on our local park bench exposing himself to me as I walked by.... plus a man sitting on the back wide seat on the local bus line exposed himself to me as I sat kiddie-corner to him on a sideways seat....and this was decades and decades ago”
EXACT same thing for me-—Boston,the 40s and 50s——the flashers have always been around.
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Poor Chris is trying to man up from his prior words.
That’s so cute!
I stand by my prior words, punk.
Apparently you can’t read too well.
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