CHILD DISCIPLINE
Mother Values A Box More Than Her Daughter
Posted on February 18th, 2010 in Teenagers
An Alabama mother is charged with endangering the wellbeing of her teen. The teenager was sitting in a cardboard box on the roof of her van down a highway. Albertville law enforcement arrested the 37-year-old mother. Police collected a number of phone calls that a minivan on the highway had a child riding on top.
The woman when questioned by cops recounted that the box was too large to fit in the minivan and they needed it. So, the only thing to do was put the box on top of the van. She said that the box would have fallen off so she had her daughter get in the box in order to hold it down.
When police questioned the woman about how safe that was for her daughter she reported that she had secured the box with a clothing hanger. So what I am trying to comprehend from this story is how a clothes hanger would secure the box.
Maybe she bent the hanger around the rack on the top of the minivan and then poked it through the box so the girl could clasp on or something. Either way, this is the most stupid thing I have heard a person do in an extended amount of time. I reward this mother the “idiot of the week award.”
Even though the 13-year-old girl was on the top in the box she wasn’t injured. The mother was out on bond soon after the incident. What doesn’t make sense to me is why she couldn’t crush the box or find a cord to secure it on.
It seems like a major jump to go from it won’t fit in the car to jump on top and I will strive to drive home safely. I wonder what the remainder of her relatives thought of the occurrence. They probably thought it was okay just like the mother.
Not only was this stupid but it was really dangerous. The girl would have landed on the road if for any reason her mother would have slammed on the breaks. She would have gotten road rash, probably have head trauma, and probably been struck by her mothers or anothers vehicle.
This event could have turned into a catastrophe but coincidentally it didn’t. It makes me speculate if this lady is one of those parents that drives around with her children on her lap rather than in a car seat. It is illegal for children not to be restrained while riding in the car because it’s unsafe.
Some parents just don’t take their children’s safety seriously. If something would have happened there wouldn’t have been anything to protect her. The mother in the car had a seatbelt, airbags, and the iron and steel on her car to protect her but this girl had zilch. This cardboard box wouldn’t have stood up to anything. Plus she would have flown out of it beforehand. I hope that the law comes down hard on this lady because she is freaking mad!
Diane Johnson graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah and enjoys writing about current events, politics, college degrees, online education, and the office.
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