So, a filthy apartment, one kid eating off the floor, the other one walking on the highway, and the mother is sleeping. I wonder where the father was.

Don't get me wrong - the woman is guilty as sin and it is her fault the entire thing has happened.
I'm just wondering what kind of a scumbag has two children and doesn't give a piss about them like this. Not that the mother was much better, but come on. What's happened to being an adult and taking care of your own children - no matter how disinclined you are to do so.

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so many things i could say in response to this about my own familial situations (and probably countless others), yet so little time to say them in. =\

First, why is a three year old wearing a diaper? And for some reason, the three year olds at my daycare center when I think about have more than enough sense than to sit in the middle of the road. Maybe his mom's neglected has caused delayed mental development?

Shame he's going to have to wait a whole year to receive it now.

Plus there's the fact that you don't always notice obstacles in the roadway until you're practically on top of them. Don't know how many times I've had to swerve out of the way of an errant animal, and wouldn't have been in a position to simply pull off and take care of them even if I wanted to.

As was mentioned earlier in the thread I'm trying to think about this from the perspective that this was taken grosely out of context. Which made me think about the episode of the Simpsons where DCFS came to take away the kids from Homer and Marge, the latter of which could be considered an excellent parent.

For the sake of discussion we should consider that the story was greatly sensationalized.

Perhaps this was a rather hectic time for the mother and she just didn't get around to cleaning the apartment so it's dirtier than usual which the press turns into "filthy".

The mother goes to sleep and the kids decide to get into some mischief. The little girl opens the refridgerator, pulls out the spaghetti, it falls on the floor and she just eats it.

Then the kid opens the door and gets out into traffic.

The police go see the mother and she says "Oh, he got out again". Once again for the sake of spinning the story against her perhaps they didn't attatch the proper emotion to the quote. Maybe she really was upset, but for the sake of a story "OH! [my god!] he got out again?!" turns into what we see in print. Which is possible if the press got her quote from the police report [which are supposed to be unbiased] as to being there to hear it then not following up with the officers who were actually there.

Of course the smart thing to do would have been to install child-proof locks, but that most likely wasn't done.

Of course I'm not saying that this is how things transpired, but as easy as it is to pass judgement on what a hell-spawn the mother is it's just as easy to spin things to try and sell a paper.

omg that's aweful! idk what i would've done if that were my son or daughter!

"Oh, he got out again?"

Why are people like that allowed to reproduce?
They should take that woman's children and tie her tubes.
This lady doesn't seem to give a damn about the well being
of her kids and it's sad. Kids don't deserve to be raised like
animals eating off the floor and almost being road kill.