Home Alone 4?????

The Courier Journal ^ | November 16, 2002 | Alan Maimon

[RockDoc]

A Williamsburg father and mother accused of leaving their four children home alone for 2 1/2 months while they traveled to Mexico have pleaded innocent to child abandonment charges.

Jeffrey Phillips, 40, and Roxan Phillips, 33, pleaded innocent to four felony charges each of abandonment of a minor in Whitley County Circuit Court on Tuesday and were released on bond. They are scheduled for a pretrial conference on Jan. 21 before Whitley Circuit Judge Paul Braden in Williamsburg. They face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

[RockDoc]

Amazing tale of four children (and two deadbeat parents)...

[Goatroper]

I hope these two scummy excuses for parents get the book thrown at them. It is pathetic, not only for the abandoned children, but for childless couples who would have done just about anything to have children of their own to love and care for.

[BenLurkin]

Two and a half MONTHS?
My kids couldn't maintain our dump for more than two days . . .

[RGSpincich]

$30. bucks a week? Hot dog! Split four ways. Hang 'em.

[JCG]

She forwarded a $30 check each week to the children for food, he said.

A whopping 36-cents per kid, per meal. These zunzabitches oughta be hung.

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[gitmo]

I can't even imagine leaving my 12 year old or my 7 year old alone for a half-day. In fact, I wouldn't leave the 7 year old alone for a minute.

[RockDoc]

"The indictment alleges that the parents left the four children -- two boys and two girls ages 5, 7, 11 and 13 -- in their Williamsburg home without adult supervision from July 1 to Sept. 19.

"...the children attended Whitley County schools while their parents were away"

This is really weird. How did this go on so long with no one knowing about these kids. The five year old would be in kindergarten (half day), where usually a parent or some other adult would pick up the child at school. And what about school supplies....out of the thirty bucks per week.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Good questions....some States have all day Kindergarten, busses take and pick up kids so parents are not necessarily seen by the school, and in Pennsylvania all school supplies are supplied...... I do not know about Virginia though.....

I've got a 16 year old and an 11 year old....if I go to the grocery store and leave them home I call at least once to check on them! This story makes me ill........

[Bubba_Leroy]

First, so there is no misunderstanding my position, these "parents" need to be publicly flogged then sterilized so they won't breed any more kids.

Second, cases such as this are a natural and predictable result of living in a nanny state. The kids probably qualified for and received free breakfasts and lunches at school. They may have even been in a government funded after school program. When the government takes over the role of parent, is it so surprising that some parents think they are not really necessary?

[Bubba_Leroy]

First, so there is no misunderstanding my position, these "parents" need to be publicly flogged then sterilized so they won't breed any more kids.

Second, cases such as this are a natural and predictable result of living in a nanny state. The kids probably qualified for and received free breakfasts and lunches at school. They may have even been in a government funded after school program. When the government takes over the role of parent, is it so surprising that some parents think they are not really necessary?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Sorry for the double post. I'm not sure how it happened.

[RockDoc]

For the record, this "Williamsburg" is in Kentucky. A small town of about 5,000 and home to Cumberland College. Located about ten miles north of the Tennessee line on I-75.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Oh, thanks for that correction.......please re-read my post and insert Kentucky in place of Virginia.....lol

[JudyB1938]

When my kids were that age, I could have left them alone for an extended period of time like that. They would have had no problems at all. Did I do it? HELL NO !!!

What's wrong with those people?