Toddler found playing on highway
 

It boggles my mind that someone can give birth to a child, then so blatantly disregard their safety and not look out for their wellbeing. I'd give her the benefit of the doubt and say she was an exhausted single mother trying to raise two kids by herself, but it doesn't sound like it (even cutting through the media glitz).

Opinions on child neglect? It's the blanket charge to cover when kids get out or when we don't like the living conditions a kid is in, and I'm split on the issue myself.

Bah, that "parent"'s attitude is very irksome. Such despicable bahaviour. She should be thankful that the drivers on the highway were much more alert than she was at the time.

The other child was eating spaghetti off the floor..? Even in the best case scenario of that sentence (the child eating the spaghetti while sitting on the floor), it still is awful parenting shown by Ms. Dyer.

lol, is this statement coming from a lady who's half asleep or is that her in her most conscious state?

At least the kids weren't hurt and hopefully they'll find a better home soon.

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Oh hello, white trash.

I escaped our apartment in Regina, Sask. when I was 3 before my mom woke up, walked across the neighbouring freeway and went to a 7-11 to get some candy (I got it for free too!)

The only things I remember now (most of the story I was told by my mom), is getting the free candy, and how pissed my mom was when she came over to the store.

Brother, if ever there was an award for understatement of the year THAT would be it.

That chick does not, under any circumstances, need to be a parent. Anytime you can nonchalantly respond with "oh he got out again" to your 3 year old baby crawling into the middle of heavy traffic and playing duck-duck goose with a bevy of cars and a fucking tractor trailer then you need to be slapped. It's like something out of Looney Tunes or a Popeye cartoon. It's surreal.

She sounds like a straight up crackhead.

I'll bet the police didn't find your sister in a filthy apartment eating spaghetti off the floor.

This is the worst thing I can think of. And this is probably only the tip of the iceberg. I'll bet these kids were living a life of pure hell. This woman needs to go to jail and never get her kids back.

I can say that when I was maybe 4 years old, I was out in the yard playing and I decided to go for a walk all by myself. This walk involved going to the end of a busy street and into the woods to "visit the fairy" who lived in a water tower.

My mother was not asleep or anything. I was just allowed to play in the yard.

I got as far as halfway down the busy street before Mom figured out where the fuck I was and came after me. So yea, kids will do stupid things - and FAST.

That doesn't mean I defend this woman. It sounds like she's a pretty disgraceful parent, even by her response. "O, he got out again." Jesus Christ, lady. This happens a lot?

I've heard worse. i remember a story from a while back about this crazy lady who would frequently lock her young son in a small dark closet and pour bleach on him to "force the demons out." No one knew that any of this was going on until the boy died. I WANNA say he either fell from a window or died in a hospital. I forget because it's been so long ago. The killing part of the story was that the woman also had a little girl, but she treated her like a normal child. Unless I'm mixing up stories here, she had this psycho thing against men, so her very young son was doomed from the start. :(

That reminds me of those A Child Called It books. Apparently the mother treated all her other children just fine. I hate people sometimes.

Doesn't boggle my mind. I'll be reading a very similar story about my neighbor any day now, I'm sure. Welcome to America!

since we're talking about youngin's getting shafted, i just heard on the radio some 9 year old boy died today while hanging himself. He hung himself from the ceiling fan with the help of his sister while trying to imitate what they did to saddam.

Can't find the article but i heard it on NPR!!! pretty damn rediculous.

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why would any parent even let thier kid watch that to begin with?

I was just sitting here thinking the same thing. I have a nine year old son and it's just unthinkable to me.

Oh my, thats really sad.

There was a time when I used to only look at one side of the story. Not anymore. The quotes used in the article can be so easily brought out of context, in my opinion. What could be happening on the MOTHER' S side to be causing her to be living in that kind of condition? So many possibilities, though I have to agree that the actual incident's a bit...surreal and what's happening to the mom is not good enough a reason to let her child run rampant in the friggin' highway like that...

Wow. That is shocking. I hope the kids find a much better place to be with a more caring and responsible family. Although I have a relative who is very bad with his kids, this is still something that blows me away. And to think there are a lot of parents like this.... :(

This is probably very coldhearted, but that kid deserves a Darwin Award for doing that.

The news is corrupting our children, making them kill themselves. We need government censorship, for the children. Isn't that how these arguments go?

I think what really needs to be done is to take a large newspaper, roll it up, take all of these parents like this woman, smack her over the head repeatedly and go "NO!" and then wag your finger at her

I'll say it once, and I'll say it again once you have a child, your life from here on out should be dedicated to ensure that your kid to live in safe loving environment. I am absolutely getting sick and tired of parents being irresponsible with their kids because of their own selfishness.

As a parent you have an obligation to protect your children and try your best to be responsible for them. Yes kids will do dangerous things out of morbid curiousity, but thats not an excuse to allow themselves to place them in dangerous situations. You have to try your best to teach them and protect them in any and every possible way.

I sincerely hope this parent does not get her kids back unless she is willing to grow up and be responsible for her kids well being.

The thought of that made me LOL. Very poor living conditions though I must say.

This behavior derives DIRECTLY from cartoons and we're subliminally fed this imagery from the time we're kids. Do you guys really think it's a coincidence that Popeye could only turn into an invincible man after acquiring some "greens" and Olive Oyl was always absentmindedly letting Sweetpea run into traffic? This was clearly a family of drug-addicts and child neglecters.

It's obvious that the mom is terrible, but how about the drivers swerving out of the way. How about getting out of the car and driving the kid to the nearest police station instead of letting it sit in the street waiting to become road kill?