Smithfield Mom Could Face Charges For The Way Her Baby Was Dressed

lol i still don't get why we're all worked up over it anyway, but that's just me.

 

Please don't take me wrong...I'm not blaming wal-mart for her ignorance. I just can't see how anyone would kick a woman out of a store with a half dressed baby in her arms in weather like that. Just shooting holes in Wayne's theory of unreasonably intelligent mothers.

 

exactly... mostly people on here just want to disagree. :mrgreen: The others (myself included) just feel really bad for the baby's welfare.

 

You know what's bright? A bunch of biddies with nothing better to do than to slam someone with no more information than what they read in the papers.

Sometimes I wonder why the webmaster doesn't name this forum area "The Beautyshop"

 

Yet you continue to patronize... interesting.

News flash clif... this is a DISCUSSION BOARD. And whether you sit on here and cry about the poor wrongly accused or not, people are going to DISCUSS their take on the situation. So cry on clif cry on...

 

Any more information on this situation or still just speculation?

 

Well, I don't want to argue with anyone about any of this situation, I just don't understand how people can behave as this mother did. That poor baby must have been freezing, and then the police had to tell her to put them in the car for heat. Did the mother have her big old heavy coat on?
I get very upset about these situations, and I ran into one today. I was leaving the Good Store on Hwy 50 and this car pulls up and I see an infant seat in the back seat. Well, I love babies, so I'm always trying to catch a glimpse when I know there's one there. I look and the baby isn't even strapped into the car seat. Just sitting in the seat. So, I'm upset about that, but I was getting ready to pull out onto 50, and when I look back, both parents get out of the car and go into the gas station. Guess what, the baby stayed in the car, not strapped in their car seat. Talk about idiots!!!!

 

Biddies?? :lol:

Makes about as much sense and diffence, truth be told, than most of the discussions on here, Mr High and Mighty. The story bugged me because of the vision of that poor kid shivering in the cold instead of being at home in a warm bed where she should have been in my opinion. So sue me.

 

Well if Clif didn't take up for the victimized un-guilty then who else would. :lol:

...yes I am making up words now. Because the only innocent in this particular situation was the baby.

 

It's all still speculation. That's enough to make a judgment with though so feel free

 

You would have to have something other than an opinion to shoot holes in that scenario, which was the point being made. There is very little information from which to draw a conclusion yet there is a lot of "jumping to conclusions" with out any factual support. I cannot see how police officers would not have a pregnant woman under their control transferred to the hospital if she said she was bleeding, yet there is a story on the news indicating just that situation.

 

i wonder if she took the time to put her own coat on.

 

I wonder if she left without her purse!

I wonder if she was terrified for her and her baby when she left!

I wonder if she is allergic to peanuts!


I do hope that she and the baby are OK!

 

:roll:

 

Good grief, Wal-Mart kicked her out of the store with a bag of peanuts that she is allergic to.

Nobody has thought to blaim the police for the child being in the cold. Were it not them that detained her?

 

Ya'll behave or ELSE!:twisted:


spankyouverymuch

 

Promises ..... promises <cough> <sniff>

 

Don't make me pay you a visit on Monday!

 

what if she was living paycheck to paycheck? and had little to no money?
what if the boyfriend controlled the purse strings?
what if she is not what you all would consider intellectually intelligent - what if her IQ is lower than most?
what if she has been a victim of physical or emotional abuse?
what if her family has disowned her or a family member has abused her so she didn't feel safe going to family?
what about the possibility that she has never seen authority figures in a positive light and fears authority - therefore calling the police is not an option?
what if she is an eighth grade or ninth grade drop-out and is doing the best she can?
what if she feels so overwhelmed that decisions are made from emotions rather than sound judgement--
what if she is making decisions based on her life and world experiences not yours?

many of you make the immediate judgement she is an unfit mother -- maybe she is doing the best she can -- and in your eyes that's not good enough unfortunately there are a lot of folks from all socio-economic backgrounds who probably shouldn't be parents but are -- they need help... condemnation does little to raise a person above his/her circumstances -- why didn't anyone approach her and ask if she needed assistance? express their concern? would you had you been there??
there is an adage about not making judgements until you have walked in the shoes of the one being judged

 

IF any of these thing are the case, as I stated before, then those MAY be extenuating circumstances. HOWEVER, as I stated before, none of that has been reported and if the police felt that was the case, then why are they considering charges? And none of that changes the fact that however inexperienced or disadvantaged this person was, there was one VERY COLD BABY out there. I'm a whole lot more worried about that baby and it's future with this parent, than I am whether or not I am unfairly judging this mother. I can guarantee you if I had been at that store and she looked in need of assistance rather than simply shopping, I would have offered, I have done it before.