Toddler found playing on highway

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.