Would anyone else leave a sleeping baby home alone - or am I overreacting?

samuelsmommy

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I asked what law was being broken, not for you to repeat the same thing over again without any facts to back it up.

And it is certainly not illegal to leave a dog alone in a car, that's just a lie

I dont need "facts to back to up" , if you require clarification then seek it for yourself, you will only question what info I give you.

You can be prosecuted for leaving a child alone at home (or in a car )under the Children and Young Persons Act, this is not a lie this is fact.

Owners who put an animal at risk by leaving it inside a locked car could face prosecution, this is not a lie this is fact.

Im not responding to you any more, the OP asked a question and I think she has her answer regarding her friend leaving baby alone at home. I do hope the OP contacts HV or SS and hopefully prevents any harm coming to the child.

peachyprice

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Here you go - I've stuck to the UK & Ireland and not gone past page one of Google searches.

http://www.psni.police.uk/car_stolen_with_children_on_board_warrenpoint_151110

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/experience-car-stolen-baby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-16154840


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-205348/Car-stolen-baby-strapped-inside.html

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/lifestyle/your-life/panic_as_car_stolen_with_child_inside_1_3333400

Plus the footballer Ian Wright's ex-wife, when his children were tiny, had her black Porsche nicked from Tesco's Purley with one of the kids on the back seat.

That proves my point perfectly, not one of those incidents involved a locked car. !!!!!! two of them actually had the keys in the ignition, one even with the engine running, how stupid can you get.

Bloomin_Freezing2

an9i77 wrote: »

The car was literally just outside the newsagents. By your logic, does that mean people shouldn't leave their kids in their car when getting petrol at a garage?

I take my kids into the shop when paying for petrol, even though I could lock the doors, and the back seats have child safety locks they can still undo their seatbelts and climb into the front and out one of those doors. Wouldn't take any seconds at all.

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

No. It is totally unnacceptable and dangerous.

My pulse rate is up just reading the post! The 'what ifs..' going through my mind...

what if she got run over? what if there was a fire? what if someone burgled the house? what if he did get out of the cot (kids development etc, they cant do something one day then the next they can..)

I'm a mother and would not contemplate such a thing. NO, NO, NO!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

peachyprice wrote: »

That proves my point perfectly, not one of those incidents involved a locked car. !!!!!! two of them actually had the keys in the ignition, one even with the engine running, how stupid can you get.

What it actually proves is that witnesses and CCTV are no deterrent to a criminal who sees an opportunity. I didn't do a search on the numbers of parked cars hit by other vehicles, but there are plenty, I suppose it's how much you want to risk seeing your car getting hit, knowing your children are inside. They probably argued just as vehemently that locking the car is dangerous because you couldn't get the children out in an accident.

Whatever.

peachyprice

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

What it actually proves is that witnesses and CCTV are no deterrent to a criminal who sees an opportunity. I didn't do a search on the numbers of parked cars hit by other vehicles, but there are plenty, I suppose it's how much you want to risk seeing your car getting hit, knowing your children are inside. They probably argued just as vehemently that locking the car is dangerous because you couldn't get the children out in an accident.

Whatever.

But there's a huge difference between jumping in and driving off an already unlocked car, especially one with the engine running and smashing windows, setting off alarms and trying to start a car that has been locked, isn't there?


As for a car getting hit on a forecourt, I would image the risk is pretty much the same as your small child getting hit.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

And in the road? Where other people leave their kids whilst they go and get their fags, milk, waitrose shopping, whatever? Or shop car parks, where windows are put through and stuff is stolen frequently?

jpwhittle

OMG i seriously want you to send me this womans address so i can report the silly mare, at 11 months my children were walking and more than capeable of climbing out of their cots. This is disgusting, where do people get of these days, this is just brainless and like others have said the first thing i thought was maddie mccann, These kind of parents need shooting but because they are well to do we are ment to feel sorry for them?
I would never dream of leaving my children alone for however long, nipping to my shed is about the most i would do!
This woman needs reporting and quick sharpish honestly. Be prepared she will probably turn nasty but quite honestly whats worst an enemy or a childs death on your conscience?
I used to know someone who would go out and leave skype on and have her parents babysit via skype. I was horrified when i found out, She would say its ok, her mum can ring her if something happened as shes only 2 minutes away but even that i thought was wrong. Uuugggggghhhhhh, soory but if you dont have time or patience for the lifetime job that a child is kepp your bleeding legs closed!!!

onlyroz

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Here you go - I've stuck to the UK & Ireland and not gone past page one of Google searches.

http://www.psni.police.uk/car_stolen_with_children_on_board_warrenpoint_151110

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/experience-car-stolen-baby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-16154840


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-205348/Car-stolen-baby-strapped-inside.html

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/lifestyle/your-life/panic_as_car_stolen_with_child_inside_1_3333400

Plus the footballer Ian Wright's ex-wife, when his children were tiny, had her black Porsche nicked from Tesco's Purley with one of the kids on the back seat.

Only one of those involves a petrol station forecourt and there's no info on whether the car was locked or not. I would have thought that breaking into a car and hot wiring it would be difficult to do in a forecourt in the time it takes mum to pay for the fuel.

Spendless

onlyroz wrote: »

Only one of those involves a petrol station forecourt and there's no info on whether the car was locked or not. I would have thought that breaking into a car and hot wiring it would be difficult to do in a forecourt in the time it takes mum to pay for the fuel.

especially since there was also a fourteen year old also in the car.