Indianapolis, IN

Thu 6 September 2007

So, I’m thinking about the woman who left her kids alone. A few days ago, a woman went out at midnight to pick up her boyfriend and left her 7-year-old and 9-year-old kids home alone while they slept. While she was away, the house was enflamed in a fast-moving fire. Her kids are still unconscious with smoke inhalation complications at Riley Children’s Hospital all because of her stupid decision to go pick up her stupid boyfriend. I just don’t understand why people continue to leave their kids alone, whether it’s in hot cars or home alone (when they’re under a certain age). It’s called being a parent. In this case, it was a Wednesday night, so the kids have school the next day. Why couldn’t she just tell her boyfriend to find some other way home? Either that, or take her kids with her. I don’t leave my daughter anywhere for any extended length of time. You never know what’s going to happen or if they might need you. So, now in an idiotic decision on the mother’s part, she faces two B felonies for child neglect (and also a C felony for forgery from last month that they dug up.) I think it’s just sad that the kids are the ones who are suffering for her devotion to her boyfriend. While she’s in jail, her kids are in Riley. When will people start realizing that if you have kids, then you have to start acting like parents and that you can’t continue doing the same dumb shit that you did before kids? And people wonder why our kids are messed up…

: don’t leave your kids home alone, house fires, fast-moving fires, fire safety, idiot parents