Leaving babies in a car parked on a public road

[juleejules]

I am horrified that two children (who I would consider babies) have been left asleep in a car parked on a public road opposite my house - the mother has gone into a house a few doors away with no off-road parking - I don't think she can see the car from the house she is in - I have to go upstairs to see that the babes are ok - that is sleeping still and not crying - I have sat and watched the car to make sure nothing untoward happens - the mother comes out and checks on her children about every 20 mins or so - should I interfere? Has she not been aware of the Maddie McCann situation? When my children were that age I sat in the car with them until they woke up or took them in the house! Am I going mad and being a "net curtain twitcher!!?" - NO i DON'T HAVE NET CURTAINS

[Psychick]

I would never dare dream of leaving my children alone in the car, or anywhere else, for a minute or two, let alone the length she has left hers! What if the car gets hit by another?

I personally would be very tempted to alert the police!

My heart is in my throat just thinking about and theyre not even mine!

[Ethel]

It happens too often

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Phone the police

[LoftyLottie]

I think I would have to intervene and face the wrath of the mother. It's one thing to leave your children in your own driveway if they are asleep in the car, and I have done this whilst I unload shopping etc, leaving the car door open. (and I do live rurally where noone walks past my house and our house is way back from the road).

However, I would never leave children asleep in a car on the side of a road under any circumstances. I presume it is locked so that the children cannot be snatched? However, being locked is just as dangerous in many ways.

[woofgang]

no you are not mad or becoming a twitcher. I have no kids myself and am not even particularly fond of them but I find myself constantly AMAZED by the stupid things some parents do....like leaving two kids in a car at the petrol station with the keys in the ignition....letting them run out of the supermarket and play outside while she shops on regardless....letting them approach touch and torment strange dogs....I could go on but I begin to foam at the mouth after a while....if it was me i would be on the phone to the police saying that you thought that the kids had been abandonned!!

[ojread2]

But it's net twitchers that often save the day - not that I am saying you are one lol

TBH You don't know for sure that mum can't see the car form where ever she is in the house. It may be she has full view of her car from, perhaps, the same view point as yourself - an upstairs window?

I agree it would be better for her to have taken the children, sleeping or not, into the house with her. Lets hope the curtain twitchers in your close keep an eye on them until she takes them in or drives away

[LoftyLottie]

Yes, phone the police and say you want to be anonymous. The others are right. Do this for the sake of the children. The mother's thoughts on this don't matter a jot!!

[andrea81]

This infuriates me! Childen are so vunerable and are in our total care. Parents need to realise this and treat children like the precious un-replacable things they are!

[ojread2]

Ah, OK I was being kind :)

[Psychick]

woofgang, I would think leaving them alone in the car is abandoning them isnt it?

Putting all the dangers aside, can you imagine how stuffy it must be getting in there for them? Not to mention how terrified the poor little mites will be when they wake to find themselves alone.

[juleejules]

It is unlikely that the car will be hit, this is just a non-through road in a village -so little likelihood of an accident - I just can't understand how she has left them - I have a driveway that is discrete from the road and I wouldn't leave my children unattended in the car regardless - I am thinking about asking them to park the car on my drive but will I then be responsible for the children?

[LoftyLottie]

A visit from a police officer might at least stop her doing it again!!

[LoftyLottie]

I wouldn't leave my dog in a car parked along the side of a road, let alone my children.

[Psychick]

juleejules, I can understand you suggesting that but it wont solve the fact theyre still left in the car alone. Besides, you dont know how they mother would react to yu approaching her on this matter.

A discreet call to the police will keep you out of it but put a stop to what she is doing.

[juleejules]

ojread2 - I know absolutely that the mother cannot see the car from where she is - I have a six foot wall and I am nearer to the parked car! no way can she see through or over the wall!!

[Psychick]

Hi juleejules, I was just wondering what the latest was, I imagine the children have woken by now?

[ojread2]

Oh, OK

Has she left yet? Are the children stil there?

[bednobs]

ok, i dont have any children, but CALLING THE POLICE??? when the mum is just sitting down the road? Little darlings cant be protected all the time
To me it seems like a very over the top reaction

[Tichfield]

bednobs, it is just as well you don't have any children then.

[bednobs]

but why would you call the police when a) you know where the mum is b) you could just go and talk to her?

[MrLee-Gend]

bednobs and get a sore face ?
get a grip .
are you on crack ?


the mccanns arent the only negligent parents in the uk.
but idiots like bednobs are the sort that support them thru their apathy .


idiot.