Before I read the OP and posted my earlier response, just based on the title, I thought you had seen a child bundled up and left UNATTENDED in a car.
However, just like HV said, it will depend on the circumstances at the time and the vibe I get. 911 will be called, but anything more than that will depend on what the person is doing, how the child is reacting, and that vibe.
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- Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:23 pm
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- Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:44 pm
- Forum: Never Again!!
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Re: child bundled into a car - what do you do?
My wife encountered a situation like this a few years ago. My wife does not have a CHL.
A woman was grabbing a screaming 10-12y girl by the arm trying to drag her into her car. My wife stopped and asked what was going on. The woman told her to go away andmind her own business. The girl kept screaming, "Don't let her take me!" My wife called 911 and the police showed up pretty quick. By this time 3-4 others were there preventing this woman from taking off with the child.
Turns out, it was her daughter. Mom claims she said something to her after getting out of the car and mom wanted her back to take her home for the day. She was supposedly dropping her off several blocks away from her school to walk the rest of the way.
CPS eventually got involved and said they performed visits to the home and nothing else became of it.
My wife was distraught for several weeks over this even though she realized there was nothing more she could have done. She was frustrated that the authorities couldn't do anything more. Since she was the girls' mother she could do anything she wanted short of actual abuse.
A woman was grabbing a screaming 10-12y girl by the arm trying to drag her into her car. My wife stopped and asked what was going on. The woman told her to go away andmind her own business. The girl kept screaming, "Don't let her take me!" My wife called 911 and the police showed up pretty quick. By this time 3-4 others were there preventing this woman from taking off with the child.
Turns out, it was her daughter. Mom claims she said something to her after getting out of the car and mom wanted her back to take her home for the day. She was supposedly dropping her off several blocks away from her school to walk the rest of the way.
CPS eventually got involved and said they performed visits to the home and nothing else became of it.
My wife was distraught for several weeks over this even though she realized there was nothing more she could have done. She was frustrated that the authorities couldn't do anything more. Since she was the girls' mother she could do anything she wanted short of actual abuse.