Children left alone to play outside yet one gets arrested and another does not. Hmm I wonder why??

 

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=db781a7b-60cc-4a9c-91fb-9a62897d1626

 

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008806250388

 

I hate double standards. This needs to be fixed.

 

I hate having to edit ambiguous topic titles that don't name the city, but that's just me. :roll:

 

And looking at the two links, I don't see any correlation - can you give me a reason to not lock this?  :wtf:

First off, the first article featured babies who were 1 1/2 and 2 1/2. While the second article isn't excusable, tt's a bit different, I think. Two babies draw attention more easily, I think, than 2 older children.

I wonder if I lock this thread - will I be labeled not only a child-hater, but a racist? Boy, the pressures I face...

Locking it is fine. It's not like our opions will change anything. I just needed to get that out from what i have noticed a very long time.

I don't get it

Basicly living in the city you are arrested for the same things suburbannites do, yet they go free.

^ Thanks, I didn't get it either.

 

Edit: I still don't see how these are the same "instances."

Child left alone. No one got hurt in either instance but could have. Just a few days ago a Hamilton woman was arrested also for leaving her children alone.

 

If they want people to stop doing that, they need to treat everyone equally.

So are you saying that toddlers should be allowed to play in the street, or that older children shouldn't be allowed to play in the yard or at a playground?

 

edit: also, in the second article, where does it say that the parents weren't somewhere near the children?

From what i understood. The children was unsupervised in every situation.  There is no age limit that i know of of when you can leave a child outside alone. 12 maybe? I don't know. No one was aroudn when the man came up to to the two children and tried to abduct them. I don't see any difference in the situations. Children are left alone.

I used to babysit my little sisters when I was 12+, and we used to play outside when the parents weren't home... should my parents be arrested? And we lived on a busy street (Rt. 46 in Niles/Warren, Ohio)

^ They would be if they lived in  the city of cincinnati. I mean going back to last year. A woman left her child that died in her car. Yet no charges was EVER filed againt her.

Are there any other parents reading this? There is an enormous difference between 8 and 2 1/2. When my kids were 2 or 3, I would never leave them outside, even in the yard, unsupervised. When they were 8 they could go down to the street to the playground without us.

I would definitely agree. And while I don't have kids, I know how I want to raise my kids.

From what i understood. The children was unsupervised in every situation. There is no age limit that i know of of when you can leave a child outside alone. 12 maybe? I don't know. No one was aroudn when the man came up to to the two children and tried to abduct them. I don't see any difference in the situations. Children are left alone.

 

If you don't see any difference between two kids barely able to walk playing in the middle of the street and a six and eight year old playing in the park than I don't think there is anything I can say to dissuade you from whatever point you're trying to make.

Oh i was right. I do not think the sleazeball should get off though.

 

 

Luring case to grand jury

 

By Sheila McLaughlin • [email protected] • July 1, 2008

 

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS0107/307010093

Comments from the defense attorney doing his best to get his client off doesn't make you right.

 

Assistant City Prosecutor Julliette Gaffney Dame credits the girls parents with saving them.

 

It was the parents who saved something from happening, she said. They were able to call their children within seconds of Mr. Hamblin luring these children into the (woods).

 

Sounds like they weren't that far away.

Happen again.  Women gets 90 days for killing child.

 

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a607550e-b1cb-4b9e-8e79-3511021296d2

Still not the same, no matter how hard you try to make it something it is not.

Hmm no charges yet but im sure she'll get off scott free.

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS01/308200081&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

 

If you are black you get your ass handed to you And if they are white well they go easy on them.

Very tragic accident, unless of course you have more information than the rest of us!

wow they are lighting of the common board on the enquirer, yet Joe Deters says it's too soon to say if criminal chrages will be filed. WTF?????

I have never forgot one of my kids was in the car.  I can never understand that excuse.  That is a bunch of garbage.  How could a mother forget she strapped her kid in the backseat.  It brings a tear to my eye to think what that poor girl went through before she passed.  Disgusting.  May she rest in peace. 

Hmm no charges yet but im sure she'll get off scott free.

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS01/308200081&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

 

If you are black you get your ass handed to you And if they are white well they go easy on them.

 

This is a joke...a black mother leaves her child in the car for less than 5 minutes and gets the child out safely - she was prosecuted and charged.  A white mother leaves her child in the car for 8 freaking hours and the baby dies - well further investigation is needed before any charges are filled.  WHAT A JOKE!

Grandma of the year!  :roll:

 

sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbgambling0821sbaug21,0,1844502.story

Hmm no charges yet but im sure she'll get off scott free.

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS01/308200081&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

 

If you are black you get your ass handed to you And if they are white well they go easy on them.

 

This is a joke...a black mother leaves her child in the car for less than 5 minutes and gets the child out safely - she was prosecuted and charged. A white mother leaves her child in the car for 8 freaking hours and the baby dies - well further investigation is needed before any charges are filled. WHAT A JOKE!

 

Where's this other case you are referencing?  How long did it take before files were charged against her?

A  suburban women left her child in a car last august. She was never charged or arrested. Some guy fell asleep inside his house. His child was caught wondering the the street. He was arrested and charged with child endangering.

Where are the details of the "suburban women" who left her child in the car?

Where are the details of the "suburban women" who left her child in the car?

 

This is a fairly comprehensive article on the matter:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070916/NEWS01/709160446/-1/all

And a blog entry from Cincinnati Black Blog:

http://blackcincinnati.blogspot.com/2007/09/has-white-woman-brenda-nesselroad-slaby.html

I can understand the racial tension on this issue due to the uneven prosecution but it seems like every crime story on the enquirer is filled with racial comments even when they aren't warrented. There was a story about some white people kidnapping someone and a response was:

 

"Dumb a$$ white trash hilbilly. There, finally a racist comment from the other side of the racial aisle, and this is coming from a white guy. I am embarrased to say that this piece of garbage is from my race. Will the other side of the aisle please make the same comment about thier own garbage?"

 

How does this become a race issue? The enquirer comment boards have made me realize what people mean when they say Cincinnati still has a lot of racial divides left. I've long been a cheerleader for the city and will continue to be and I've always said I don't know where I'll end up but I wouldn't mind it being in Cincinnati but this overwhelming focus on race and trying to call out the other side definitely makes the city less attractive to me.

We are teetering on the edge of making this entirely a racial thing.  Let's keep things civil please.

 

Neglect of children knows no color.  As a reporter, I saw so-called parents of every color and economic background who should never been allowed to procreate, much less raise children.  If law enforcers are treating cases differently, then let's be quantifying that before making that claim.

 

But let's keep things factual and civil.

Mom will not face charges

Deters: No prosecution for baby's death in hot van

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/NEWS01/809110381/1055/NEWS

 

A Wyoming mother whose infant died in a hot car in August while she was at work will not be prosecuted.  "We are not going to seek charges," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Wednesday night.  Deters will take questions about the case at 1:30 p.m. today.

 

On Aug. 20, 11-month-old Jenna Edwards died after her mother, Jodie Edwards, 34, left the child in her vehicle for eight hours while she worked at Cincinnati Christian University in East Price Hill. 

 

Authorities made the right decision, said Edwards’ attorney, Robert Fischer of West Chester Township, in a statement released late Wednesday.  “I would like to thank Joe Deters, his assistant prosecutors, and the police investigators for conducting a thorough investigation into this matter, and acknowledging that while Jenna’s death was a tragic accident, no crime was committed.

 

NAACP's Smitherman denounces decision

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/NEWS01/309110012

 

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters' decision not to prosecute Jodie Edwards in the death of her infant child in a hot car illustrates that there is a different standard of justice for whites and blacks, Christopher Smitherman, president of the Cincinnati chapter of the NAACP, said today.

 

Smitherman said his 2,400 local NAACP members already are e-mailing and calling him at home to tell him they disagree with Deters' decision.