Good for you and the little girl.  I'm willing to bet she was too busy texting to notice she was minus a kid. 

That's some craziness. Where I worked that would have been a priority 1 call, code 3 (lights and sirens) response and we would have been there in less then 3 minutes. Then we would have taken all your info and transported her to our station. CPS would be called and a report would be filed by them and us and forwarded to the DA for review.

That's very upsetting. Poor kid.
Glad there was a responsible adult around.

Quote from: muskrat on June 17, 2014, 04:46:46 PM
  Good for you and the little girl.  I'm willing to bet she was too busy texting to notice she was minus a kid. 

Perhaps Dad was just run over by a bus and Mom's not thinking too clearly.
We can speculate to the moon.

I'll agree that it was likely much closer to your scenario than mine.
And it's good that rg was paying attention and helped the girl get home safe.

I'm sure CPS got the memo.

Quote from: Speeddog on June 17, 2014, 05:56:15 PM
Perhaps Dad was just run over by a bus and Mom's not thinking too clearly.
We can speculate to the moon.

I'll agree that it was likely much closer to your scenario than mine.
And it's good that rg was paying attention and helped the girl get home safe.

I'm sure CPS got the memo.

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This.

Still worth a look.

Believe me I was not indicting Mom.

I bet the girls real mother is Toasty, and some douchey drill member is holding her hostage.

The mom may be the worst one on earth.
Or maybe just handles stress poorly.

I've seen atrocious parents.
And I've seen some of my loved ones act as if they'd removed their brains, when things went haywire.

Quote from: Speeddog on June 17, 2014, 06:52:36 PM
The mom may be the worst one on earth.
Or maybe just handles stress poorly.

I've seen atrocious parents.
And I've seen some of my loved ones act as if they'd removed their brains, when things went haywire.

Exactly.

Whatever the reason

The outcome was good.

Good job

I had a similar experience a few years ago.  I saw a 4 or 5 year old girl chasing geese in a park next to our house. Didn't see anyone watching her.  I went down to check.  She didn't know where mom was and and nobody else knew anything about her.  I told a couple in the park that I was going to take her back to our house and call the cops pointing out where I was taking the girl in case mom showed up.  Turns out that this tiny girl, who's mom was attending a hearing at the court house, wandered out of the building, across a fairly busy Main Street, then two blocks to the park - by herself.  Cops picked her up just shaking their heads.

What suprised me more than the lack of parental (or even bystander) supervision was how easliy I was able to walk off with a small child in a park.  I just asked her to come with me so we could find her mom and she took my hand and went with me with complete trust.  I doubt anyone would have even been involved if I hadn't made the effort to tell others what I was doing and where we were going.  Shocking how easy it was to simply walk off with her.

Did the little girl look anything like this?



Speculate or make any excuse you want but that is your child. Bottom line, there is nothing more important than your child. Mom failed. Looking ahead, maybe now she can get help for what ever is going on in her life.

Again  to rgramjet for being an outstanding guy.

Quote from: bobspapa on June 17, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
I bet the girls real mother is Toasty, and some douchey drill member is holding her hostage.

This ^^^

Similar thing happened to me a few months ago.

It was late winter and I was walking the dogs on a Saturday evening.  I came upon a little boy 5-7ish who had gotten separated from his family at the zoo, which was about 3/4 of a mile away from where I found him.  He also had to cross two very busy streets.

I would have walked him back to the zoo, but he was a little bit intimidated by my Boxer Brian, who just wanted to play with him.  Thankfully, there was a little market just down the street that was just about to close.  I took him there so he could stay warm until the police arrived.  They picked him up a few minutes after I got there (there is a station right next to the zoo). 

The officer took him away in the squad car and I'm assuming that he was returned safe & sound.

No kids here. But I freak out if I realize I don't know where my phone is.

I'm glad there are a lot of good people out there to help those affected by others mistakes.

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I've got a six year old.  There is no way you wouldn't notice the profound silence if he went missing for so much as a minute! 

I don't know how it is in the States, but in Australia the Police are mandatory reporters of child protection issues and would have filed a report.  The mother would be fine if this was a one off but CPS (or equivalent) would look into it if there were a few similar reports.

Well done for taking responsibility of the child, so many people would have just walked by.