Cops Strip-Searched a 4-Year-Old After Mom's Errand Took Too Long

[rangerrebew]

Cops Strip-Searched a 4-Year-Old After Mom's Errand Took Too Long
Child services called because Holly Curry let her kids wait in the car while she bought a muffin.

Lenore Skenazy | 5.28.2019 12:18 PM
 

A mom who let her six children wait ten minutes in the car while she ran in to get them muffins at a local Kentucky cafe is the focus of this oped I co-authored in The Washington Post.

Perhaps you can guess what happened next to the mom, Holly Curry. In fact, I'll bet you can. Though it was 67 degrees and partly cloudy, and though it is statistically safer to let kids wait in the car than drag them across a parking lot—the heart-wrenching stories of kids who die in cars almost always involve children forgotten there for hours, not simply waiting out an errand—Curry found herself in trouble with the police:

    When she came out less than 10 minutes later, two officers rebuked Curry for leaving her kids in the car. They told her she wasn't being arrested, just "detained." She started to cry and asked permission to call her husband, Josiah, but that request was denied. No one asked to see the kids, still sitting in the car.

https://reason.com/2019/05/28/strip-searched-cops-holly-curry/

[Restored]

Don't leave your kids in the car if you are going to be gone for 10 minutes. 10 minutes to get muffins?
You cannot predict what the kids will do.

[Cyber Liberty]

"Respect mah authoritah!"

[mountaineer]

Heck, we probably sat in the car 20 minutes or more while our mother ran errands. Of course, we could roll down the windows with a hand crank.

[Sanguine]

I feel for her.  Six kids and up to six state-mandated-almost-impossible-to-fasten car seats.  Trying to get all six of them out of their car seats, across the parking lot, into the store and then back into the car and their seats.  Whew, I'm tired and frustrated just thinking about it.

[GtHawk]

You know this nanny state garbage has really gotten out of hand. How many kids in the 40's, 50's 60's and even seventies were left in the car while their parents ran a errand.......................and oh my gosh, survived with out so much as an iddy biddy boo boo? Yes a child left in a closed up car on a hot day warrants action, but it has gotten to the point where children playing in their own yards without an adult hovering will bring the police or protective services down on a parent.

All part and parcel of Hillary's it takes a village idiot.