This is another bulletin from www.privateofficer.com. If this doesn’t boil your blood, something’s wrong. I know this has absolutely nothing to do with retail loss prevention, but I just want to rant a little, so please bear with me.

It was 37 degrees outside, and this so-called “mother” leaves her 10-month-old child in the car while she goes dancing?!?! WHAT?

This is exactly the kind of parenting that produces the values deficit we see in teens today. I just can’t imagine having a parent, or parents, like this. How do you punish her? What is appropriate? I just don’t know the answer to that. My emotions say one thing (like, put her in a cold car, wearing a diaper, and lock her in there for hours), but my reason says that there has to be a way to correct this behavior and make her take responsibility for her actions.

I wonder what she thought was going to happen. Is this a result of the “ME” generation? Have we, as a society, started down a slippery slope where today’s generation puts their needs, their wants, and their fun, before everything, including their own children? This is really scary stuff.

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. — A Crossville mother is accused of leaving her baby in a cold automobile while she went dancing at a bar.
Police said they received a call from a club patron about a baby in a car that was unattended in the parking lot. When officers arrived and began to investigate they found that the mother was inside the club and had left the baby alone. Officers took Leaha Richardson off the dance floor of Mr. Edds Friday night to ask her why she left her 10-month-old son in her van.
Police charged Richardson with with child abuse and transported her to the county jail.
The temperature outside at the time was 37 degrees.
The baby’s grandparents have temporary custody of the child.

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