Stop Child Abuse in the Family Car
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Story #1
Tribune
Police have arrested a mother who took her dog shopping inside a Scottsdale Fashion Square department store while leaving her sleeping toddler in her car with a valet. Gardenia Zakrzewski Johansson, 39, who told police she is a Montessori schoolteacher, was arrested on suspicion of child neglect for leaving her 2-year-old son in the car to go into Neiman Marcus, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Story #2
A Sheboygan mother is expected to be charged with two counts of misdemeanor child neglect for allegedly leaving her two children in a freezing car for 20 minutes while she went tanning.
Story #3
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Fort Collins police are investigating a possible case of child abuse after the toddler's mother said she placed her child in the car as punishment and the child wound up in the hospital.Police said the mom disciplined her child during a shopping trip. The mother and her child were at a local bookstore when the child would not stop running around. ...Putting the child in the car allowed mom to read her books but the child nearly died.
My soap box today is dealing with people who are so selfcentered, sooo selfish that their most meaningless desires become far more important to them than does parenting their own children.
Parents who leave children in a car for any reason are abusers. They are selfcentered and put their petty desires far above their children's mental and physical health.
The next time you see a parent or caregiver neglecting or abusing a child you should be the one person who cares more for the welfare of those children than the abusing, narcissistic parent. Say something. Get the licence plate number and call the police. Go into the building and make a comlaint to security. Do whatever it takes to save these little children from a lifetime of mental and physical disabilities.
Tribune
Police have arrested a mother who took her dog shopping inside a Scottsdale Fashion Square department store while leaving her sleeping toddler in her car with a valet. Gardenia Zakrzewski Johansson, 39, who told police she is a Montessori schoolteacher, was arrested on suspicion of child neglect for leaving her 2-year-old son in the car to go into Neiman Marcus, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Story #2
A Sheboygan mother is expected to be charged with two counts of misdemeanor child neglect for allegedly leaving her two children in a freezing car for 20 minutes while she went tanning.
Story #3
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Fort Collins police are investigating a possible case of child abuse after the toddler's mother said she placed her child in the car as punishment and the child wound up in the hospital.Police said the mom disciplined her child during a shopping trip. The mother and her child were at a local bookstore when the child would not stop running around. ...Putting the child in the car allowed mom to read her books but the child nearly died.
My soap box today is dealing with people who are so selfcentered, sooo selfish that their most meaningless desires become far more important to them than does parenting their own children.
Parents who leave children in a car for any reason are abusers. They are selfcentered and put their petty desires far above their children's mental and physical health.
The next time you see a parent or caregiver neglecting or abusing a child you should be the one person who cares more for the welfare of those children than the abusing, narcissistic parent. Say something. Get the licence plate number and call the police. Go into the building and make a comlaint to security. Do whatever it takes to save these little children from a lifetime of mental and physical disabilities.