COOPERTOWN, Tenn. - Thursday morning a mom was behind bars after police found five of her children riding in the back of the moving truck she was driving.
Wednesday night a concerned citizen flagged down police at a Mapco just outside of Coopertown after she saw five children get out of the back of a U-Haul.
A mom, her 18-year-old sister and her nine children were traveling from Georgia to Illinois in order to escape a troubled relationship, according to the mom. Five of those nine kids, all under 14-years-old, were traveling in the back of the U-Haul with no seatbelts, no air-conditioning and surrounded by unsecured furniture.
Police took the mom into custody and filed a number of charges against her, including reckless endangerment.
It's illegal, dangerous ans stupid--she should have been arrested.
What about this:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/...ren_safe_haven A father of 9 children abandoned all 9 kids at an emergency room in Omaha as it is now legal to do this. The law was enacted in order for it to not be illegal to abandon a newborn, but was written to include children up to 19 years of age.
While I feel bad for her that they were fleeing some kind of family issue, I have to say I support the arrest. It's bad enough to have your kids in the car w/out proper child-seats or seatbelts, but driving them cross country in the back of a Uhaul? And surrounded by unsecured furniture?
I feel bad that she was leaving a troubled relationship... but that's no excuse for traveling cross-country with your kids in the back of a UHaul! That's dangerous!
alinnell - I read that this morning. Those poor kids, that's not what that law was intended for...
On the real note of the thread, that i s just plain stupid. I uderstand not having the means necessary to do what you need to do, but there had to have been a better way. You just can not pu tthe children in danger like that. Wow, people amaze me!
I guess some people just don't "think".
Like the women who leave their baby in the car while they go and get a tan, or go shopping, and then come out and the baby's dead.
I do feel sorry for her if she was getting away from an abusive relationship, but I guess that doesn't excuse her actions.
As to the guy with the 9 kids, I can't say I approve, but it's better than the alternative that had come about here recently. A lady took her own life and the lives of her 4-5 children a few months ago. Just horrifying!!
In Indiana here recently, a woman was arrested for leaving her toddler son in a Wal-Mart. She took him to the store, stuck a backpack on him with some items inside (a drink, a snack, etc.) and a note that said she could no longer take care of him.
It took them a while to find the woman who left him-they had to search the security cameras. It literally made me cry when I saw it on the news-because it showed her in the store with him, and she quickly jetted out of there, trying to "lose" him. He was wandering around, just looking lost. I told my husband I would have taken him into my home in a heartbeat.
What do ya'll think of this?? Mom Arrested For Kids Traveling In Back Of U-Haul
