PA - Man leaves kids, 6 and 9 for 45 minutes at park. Gets arrested, CPS involved as well.

[Anti Federalist]

So the busybody lady, who was already keeping an eye on the kids (which, if we didn't live in the hyper obsessive age that we live, would be considered normal) couldn't help but call the cops.

That's the end of this family.

Govindaraj Narayanasamy must not have figured out how things work here in Amerika yet.





Police Say Dad Left Kids at Park To Shower

http://chartiersvalley.patch.com/ar...he-shopped-showered?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001

Police say a father left his two children alone at Scott Park while shopping at Walmart and showering at LA Fitness.

Govindaraj Narayanasamy, 38, of Scott, was charged with two counts of child endangerment after township police said he left the 6-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy alone in the park for nearly two hours Saturday.

Officers were called to Scott Park at around 12:30 p.m. Saturday from a person who noticed the two children playing on the swings and slides alone without a guardian. The woman told police she had been keeping an eye on them for an hour because she knew the girl and became concerned.

Police officers were able to get Narayanasamy’s phone number and called him as he was driving back to the park. He arrived shortly after 1 p.m. and told officers he left the children only briefly while going to shop for snacks at Walmart in Raceway Plaza and shower at the LA Fitness in Great Southern Shopping Center.

Narayanasamy estimated he had only been gone for about 45 minutes, but the investigation revealed that he likely left the kids alone for nearly two hours, according to court records.

Police said Narayanasamy told officers he went to LA Fitness to shower after playing tennis at the park.

The county's Office of Children, Youth and Families is also investigating the incident.

 

[Czolgosz]

That "father" is an idiot.


Eff Gladys Kravitz.


FTP.

 

[Kluge]

While I don't agree with the woman's solution, that was an absolutely asinine thing for the father to do.

 

[coastie]

Hmmm....45 minutes up to possibly 2 hours, 6 and 9 years old???

Need more info.

I'm the last to believe CPS should even exist.......but WTF was this dude thinking leaving the area like that, even if "only" for 45 minutes, or even 10 minutes? I leave my kids home all the time when I have to, but they damn sure can't even leave the house, nobody's allowed over while we're gone, etc.

I didn't leave them alone even at the house when they were 6 and 9, let alone a park. I don't buy into the "pedophile lurking under every rock in the park next to the terrorists" horseshit, but still.





















Why was this guy just randomly taking a shower at a fitness center?

 

[Lucille]

I'm older than most people here, but when I was six, I was running all over town on my bike, for hours on end. Back then, kids were free.

I was watching Arizona Memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s on PBS in Feb., and this lady talked about how they just dropped their kids off at Big Surf all day long-- kids as young as this guy's.

Times change, and not necessarily for the better.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'm older than most people here, but when I was six, I was running all over town on my bike, for hours on end. Back then, kids were free.

I was watching Arizona Memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s on PBS in Feb., and this lady talked about how they just dropped their kids off at Big Surf all day long-- kids as young as this guy's.

Times change, and not necessarily for the better.

That's the larger point here, and the rise of "helicopter parents".

Training a whole generation to be under constant surveillance.

Lenore at "Free Range Kids" checks in:

This is NOT a Crime! Cops Charge Dad Who Let Kids Play Alone in Park for 2 Hours
Posted on April 11, 2012 by lskenazy

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/...-who-let-kids-play-alone-in-park-for-2-hours/

Readers! As we approach our third annual, “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day” (Saturday, May 19), this story is outrageous. Apparently a dad let his two kids, ages 6 and 9, play in a local suburban Pittsburgh park on Saturday morning for not quite two hours while he did some shopping and took a shower. That is, while he went about the tasks of everyday life.

Meantime, a woman noticed this unusual thing: Kids playing without an adult around! That this fact was “disturbing” to an onlooker is what is so disturbing about our culture. For millennia, kids kept themselves occupied while their parents were otherwise engaged. A 9-year-old watching a 6-year-old was NORMAL, not a REASON TO CALL THE COPS.

But call the cops she did. And when they got there, they charged the dad with two counts of child endangerment. Meantime, of course, child protective services is investigating, too. Because any time you trust your children or your community, YOU cannot be trusted.

That’s what we’ve come to. You are punished for believing in your kids’ self-reliance and the neighborhood you chose to raise them in. Hence, the Free-Range Kids movement. Hence this Free-Range Kids blog. Hence…I wish I knew. We have GOT to turn our country around or children will be prisoners of their parents, and vice versa, all in the name of “caring.” Ask me, that word is missing an “s” at the beginning. – L.

 

[Kluge]

Oh shit.

 

[brushfire]

The state takes care of its children... Children that young must live to fight for corporate interests.

 

[Anti Federalist]

The state takes care of its children... Children that young must live to fight for corporate interests.

Human resources.

 

[JK/SEA]

I'm older than most people here, but when I was six, I was running all over town on my bike, for hours on end. Back then, kids were free.

I was watching Arizona Memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s on PBS in Feb., and this lady talked about how they just dropped their kids off at Big Surf all day long-- kids as young as this guy's.

Times change, and not necessarily for the better.

i'm 60 now, and there is a large playfield/school across the street from my boyhood home. From 3pm till twilight i would ride my bike and play with other kids WITHOUT any adults around. Amazing that i'm still alive i suppose. This was a normal activity for much of our generation as when visiting with cousins or family friends we would be told to go 'play in the traffic'...this was code for 'go play outside till dinner is ready' and in each case on these visits we as a group of kids would find the nearest park and do what kids did in my day......i suppose my parents would be jailed nowadays...crazy world...

 

[Danke]

When I was nine, I had a paper route. I took the city buses alone to both downtown Mpls. and Saint Paul.

I think I could watch my 6 year old sister at a park.

 

[Anti Federalist]

i'm 60 now, and there is a large playfield/school across the street from my boyhood home. From 3pm till twilight i would ride my bike and play with other kids WITHOUT any adults around. Amazing that i'm still alive i suppose. This was a normal activity for much of our generation as when visiting with cousins or family friends we would be told to go 'play in the traffic'...this was code for 'go play outside till dinner is ready' and in each case on these visits we as a group of kids would find the nearest park and do what kids did in my day......i suppose my parents would be jailed nowadays...crazy world...

I remember riding around on the back deck under the hatchback window of my Aunt's Pinto.

Seat belt?

Pfft.

No seat.

 

[Diurdi]

I'm pretty young, but ever since i was 7 and older I pretty much played with my friends unsupervised around the city (of 500,000 ppl) after school until it was dinner time. No cellphone, no nothing.

Maybe it was a bad neighbourhood?

 

[brushfire]

LOL - awesome. Yes, the pinto. It was my family's first new car. It replaced the old datsun.
We had it until around 1982, when it was mortally wounded by a snow plow.

You see a lot of old cars on the roads, but never a pinto.

...I had a buddy who's parents still had a gremlin, well into the mid 80's. The floor board were rusted out in the back. I recall my friend getting screamed at by his mom for apparently dragging his foot on the road while the car was operating LOL. The fact that he could have lost his leg was not the point, it was that his shoes were brand new and now ruined. WTF? LOL... How we ever survived - I dont know.

 

[JK/SEA]

LOL - awesome. Yes, the pinto. It was my family's first new car. It replaced the old datsun.
We had it until around 1982, when it was mortally wounded by a snow plow.

You see a lot of old cars on the roads, but never a pinto.

...I had a buddy who's parents still had a gremlin, well into the mid 80's. The floor board were rusted out in the back. I recall my friend getting screamed at by his mom for apparently dragging his foot on the road while the car was operating LOL. The fact that he could have lost his leg was not the point, it was that his shoes were brand new and now ruined. WTF? LOL... How we ever survived - I dont know.

this made me laugh...sounds like something i would have done. My mom was ...it seemed...was always yelling at the little red-headed boy...me...for something...she accused me of giving her ulcers...ahhh, the good ol' days..

 

[dannno]

I'm older than most people here, but when I was six, I was running all over town on my bike, for hours on end. Back then, kids were free.

I was watching Arizona Memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s on PBS in Feb., and this lady talked about how they just dropped their kids off at Big Surf all day long-- kids as young as this guy's.

Times change, and not necessarily for the better.

I was playing unattended in my neighborhood as young as 4 or 5. I could go anywhere I wanted as long as I could walk or bike there. This wasn't that long ago.

 

[JSaindon]

While I would not do that myself where I live, I do not feel the need to pass judgement on the father because I do not know him or his family. Just because YOU may not do something, does not give you the right to pass your judgement and morality on others. I could never tell someone how to raise their kids, because I would never want anyone to tell me that. There is no common ground anymore, there is just two sides that can never get along. Freedom of choices and living with the consequences is what the USA should be all about, but we have turned into the nanny state.

 

[angelatc]

While I don't agree with the woman's solution, that was an absolutely asinine thing for the father to do.

Pfft. When I was that age, we were riding our bikes to parks and pools, where we stayed for the entire day. He dropped off the kids to play in the park while he shopped and worked out.

There is actually nothing wrong with that.

We had to be home before dark. That was my Dad's law, not the government's law. And the only time we lost a classmate was at the pool, but he was there with his family, and under the watchful eye of the lifeguards.

 

[angelatc]

Oh shit.

Because they got you, and you just realized it?

 

[fisharmor]

I was about that old when we lived in New Orleans, of all places, and I still went everywhere unattended.
I was eight the first time an alligator got into the canal. The kids' response? Let's throw rocks at it!

Shit like this has me pretty convinced I'm playing with fire, because my 5 year old daughter doesn't own a bike helmet.
I make it a point to put her in the front seat of the car whenever there isn't an airbag, too.