No comment necessary. It speaks for itself.
FRANKFORD (WPVI) —
Two women are expected to be charged after a young child was discovered on the roof of a home in Philadelphia’s Frankford section.
Sources say the women, identified as the mother of the child and the mother of another toddler in the home at the time, will be charged with endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person.
Neighbors on the 4700 block of Leiper Street noticed the child on the roof of the home Monday afternoon.
The young child made his way onto the roof through an open third story window.
In cellphone video captured by a neighbor, the child is seen walking around the sloped roof.
Neighbors screamed for the child to sit down.
“Everybody was trying to distract the baby so he wouldn’t fall off the roof. Everybody was saying ‘sit down, sit down,'” one neighbor said.
Firefighters arrived on the scene and set up a ladder.
The child reached out to grab the ladder.
However, before rescuers began their climb, another firefighter pulled the boy back inside to safety through the third story window.
“I seen himself outside on the roof with the window up. Everybody was telling him to stay back. Everything will be okay,” neighbor Jacob Durant said.
The boy and another child were taken from the home.
They appeared to be okay and were taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children as a precaution.
Police say the children live in the home with their mothers.
Both moms were taken away in handcuffs for questioning at the Special Victims Unit.
Sorry, but handcuffing these women and taking the kid away was absolute overkill. I really feel sorry for this woman, because I have seen kids like that boy, and there’s nothing you can do about them. They’re just born that way.
It might be a surprise to most of you in here, because most of you are male and have rarely, if ever, had responsibility for the daily, 24/7 care of a young child, but kids do shit like this all the time. I have a nephew who, as a young boy, would literally have had to have been chained and padlocked to his bed to keep him from sneaking out, climbing on the roof , climbing up to the top of trees, burning the house down with any incendiary device that came to hand, or driving off in the car. Car keys, lighters, matches, kitchen knives, and anything else that could be used in a dangerous fashion, had to be locked up.
And if you chain your kid to the bed, you WILL be confronting child abuse charges. What’s a mother to do when she has one of those boys who you just cannot turn your back on for a single second? My sis had to go to my mother’s in the evening to take a shower there, so someone could watch the boys and keep the wild hair from swinging from the chandelier, running out of the house, climbing on the roof, tipping over furniture, or setting the place on fire.
My sister told his kindergarten teacher, listen to me, there is NOTHING this boy will not try to climb one. The teacher smiled indulgently and said, “oh, a MOMMA!!” Sure enough, later that day, the phone call came from the teacher telling my sister not to be too shocked at the bruises on my nephew from little mishap he’d had that morning.
The mothers left the house. They weren’t even in the home. They don’t get a pass. I’m a man and I don’t give a fuck about excuses. Throw them in jail. The kids have a better chance in foster care.
Where are the daddies? Surely not at work. Surely not even living with their baby mommas. I wonder how many welfare checks were pouring into this Section 8 house of horrors.
These women pop out babies to increase their welfare checks. They are nothing more than paychecks to women like these scum.
Nowhere in your post did it say that the mothers left the kids alone in the house. That certainly alters things- you NEVER leave young kids alone, not even for a minute.
The vid won’t play on this computer. Bad signal.
I agree with you that kids with moms like these would have a better chance in foster care.
And I also favor not only paying for birth control for these women, but MAKING THEM USE IT. A condition of getting welfare should be having implants, and that’s all there is to it. Better yet, offer these women free sterilizations, maybe with a free ipad or something tossed in. It would save the tax payers tens of thousands of dollars in incarceration costs down the road for each birth averted, given that it costs north of $40,000 a year to keep someone in a max security lock-up.
The news report in the video says the mothers were not in the house.
I refuse to watch vids where I am forced to watch a commercial. Everybody always trying to sell me shit. Fuck off and die.
I climbed roofs ALL the time. In the last joint we lived at in Newark there were these row houses … a block long … and most of the stand-alone garages were connected. We played “cops and robbers” on top of ’em … and the ones not connected we just jumped from one to another … only 5 or 6 feet … a long way when you’re 10 years old. One day my dad said to me — “I hope you fall off one day … that will teach you!!”. My mom said to dad — “Are you crazy?? Imagine the hospital bill!!”. They both should have been arrested for child abuse. I might have turned out better.
I feel sorry for that momma though. Can’t give blow jobs AND take care of the kid!!!
My mother never left us alone as young (under age 8), but we were left alone as kids ages 9-12 a lot.
But, more, the housewives in our neighborhood in a St Louis suburb in metro IL might as well have been left their kids alone, because they pushed their kids out of their houses at 10 am to “go play”. We all roamed the two adjacent subdivisions while the moms coffee-klatched and watched soap operas- I had the only working mother around.
The kids ran amock. They climbed roofs and trees, and you could NOT keep the boys off the damn railroad tracks- what IS it about kids and railroad tracks? We rode our bicycles for miles, and I had mine allover Hwy 59. We went to the public swim pool unaccompanied. Let me tell you that most moms of the 50s would be nailed for “neglect” now, but we did great and had a lot of fun catching crawdaddies in the creek, wandering around in the junk stores in neighborhoods my mom would not have wanted me in, or going downtown and reading the “true crime” and ‘true confession’ rags in the drugstore downtown on one of my shopping forays, when I would don my “big girl” clothes- dress, nylon hose, kitten heeled shoes, and all- and spend my time eating a sundae at the dime store lunch counter and reading the lurid stories in the magazines. Sometimes I talked to bums, even. But that was OK because my mother taught me how to protect myself.
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The kid was about 2 years old and crawled out the window onto the roof.
Admin, sorry, that vid would not play on this computer. If indeed this is the case, I agree- the mothers should be prosecuted. A 2 year old is totally helpless and can get himself into more trouble in 5 seconds your back is turned, than you can even imagine, and all mothers should know this.
A 2 year old near me was killed when his mom ducked out of the room to meet the babysitter, and the kid climbed into the 5th floor window and then fell out of it. Horrible.
DEFENDANTS: 2 Philadelphia Mothers
CRIME: Leaving Baby Unattended
PUNISHMENT: Arrested, Questioned, Awaiting Charges
DEFENDANTS: State of Georgia SWAT Team & Cornelia Police Department
CRIME: Throwing Stun Grenade Into Baby’s Crib, With Baby Still In It
PUNISHMENT: Nada. Zero. Zilch. Zip.
My neighbors are white trash MOTY’s ( Mothers of the year). They leave their toddlers out in the backyard all day with so much trash and accidents waiting to happen it will make you sick. I’ve had to stop what I’m doing when I’m in the garden many times when they were close to hurting themselves. No one is employed and not a father ( sperm donor ) to be found, but more babies are on the way. The disconnect with these people is unbelievable.
I did not call the authorities because I don’t believe in them, but someone else did and they removed most of the children last week.
This isn’t just a Philly thing, this non sense is everywhere.
Back to the garden.