Parents Arrested for Driving Drunk ... With Their Kids in the Trunk!

dinsdag 6 augustus 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 2 hours ago

It must be time for the Worst Parent of the Year awards, because these particular parents were certainly out to get a medal. A couple were arrested in San Bernardino, California after someone noticed something odd inside their car trunk. The person called police. Cops came to check it out and asked the mom to open the trunk. She reportedly hesitated but then flipped it. And there. In the trunk. Were. TWO CHILDREN. And, yes, they belonged to her. Grrr .....

It all started when April and Richard Burgo went through a drive-through at a restaurant. Apparently they must have popped the trunk for a moment because a witness saw a child in the trunk and called 911. Cops found the car after it left the restaurant and pulled it over.

Reportedly, cops could smell booze a mile away. The allegedly inebriated couple were in the car with another adult. The mom was driving. When asked to open the trunk, that's when cops made their alarming discovery. Inside were a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, both crying.

It breaks my heart to think of what these poor kids were feeling and knowing their (allegedly) blotto parents had put them in the freaking trunk! Police believe everyone was aware the children were there. That this wasn't some kind of accident.

I don't think these parents deserve another chance at parenthood. If it was a deliberate act, it is one of the cruelest I can think of.

The children are now under the care of a relative. It really boggles my mind why some people have kids. And to think child-free people are judged for not having them??!!

Thanks must go out to the person whose eagle-eye saw the child earlier. And who was caring enough to call 911. A lot of people might have doubted what they saw. Or assumed it was some kind of game.

Get involved. Keep vigilant. Not everyone is taking care of their kids. Some are being downright tortured. You have every right to call the police. Even if it turns out to be nothing, you did the right thing.

Have you ever seen anything that made you call 911 on a parent?

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Nanny Says Mom Beat Her Up When She Tried to Stop Her From Driving Drunk With Child (VIDEO)

donderdag 18 juli 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 3 hours ago

A mom of two is accused of beating up her nanny. She allegedly attacked her, grabbed her neck, pulled her hair, threw her to the ground, and tried to punch her. Sheesh, what could cause a mother to go off on her nanny like that? Did the nanny give the kid a juice box or something? Nope. Reportedly, the nanny was merely trying to stop the mom from driving with her 14-month-old in the car -- because she was drunk.

Reportedly, the 20-year-old nanny thought the 44-year-old mom from Long Island, New York, Laura Bowery-Falco, was inebriated and shouldn't be driving. But after the fracas, Bowery-Falco allegedly got in her car anyway and drove away with the kid in tow. Shortly afterwards, the mom was pulled over by cops and arrested on DUI charges. She is also charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of the child.

Her lawyer denies everything.

The mom is a wealthy woman who owns an equestrian stable in the Hamptons, a playground for New York's elite. No doubt she doesn't like being told what to do.

It's not totally clear what happened here, though if she was arrested on DUI charges, I assume there was some good evidence she was driving when she shouldn't be -- but the truth is that nannies put up with a lot. Nannies got a bad rap thanks to the horrific case of Yoselyn Ortega, who allegedly killed her two young charges, but the vast majority of the time, nannies are good people who are in a difficult position. They're in charge of the kids and not in charge at the same time.

I know from my time being a teen au pair that it can be an awkward situation in the extreme, depending on how the mom is. In one of my au pair jobs, I watched the mom make horrible decisions about her kids -- including physically disciplining them in ways I felt were inappropriate -- and yet I couldn't say anything about it. It didn't help that I was in a foreign country. I finally left the house for good one day when she slapped her daughter and I listened to the little girl cry hysterically.

The mom here, if the nanny's version is correct, should have been grateful that the nanny cared enough about her child to step in and try to stop the mom from making a bad decision about her kid. But that's not usually the way it works.

I really feel for this nanny. Hopefully she can find a better family -- or get out of the nanny business, which can be a thankless one.

Have you ever had a nanny or been one?

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