PALMETTO, FL. – A Palmetto woman faces charges of child neglect after leaving her kid with a stranger for two days...According to a police report, Willis knocked on the door of a stranger’s apartment in the 400 block of 11th Street Drive West at 9am Saturday morning. Willis told the man who answered the door that her car A/C needed repair and asked him to watch her boy, and the man agreed. After the woman did not return for several hours, the man contacted the Safe Child Coalition, who sent police to take custody of the child. Willis returned to the apartment Monday morning to pick up the child and was later arrested. She told detectives that she was using drugs.
Say what you want about the mom, she’s a horrible person, but how about questioning the stranger here. Who the hell accepts a baby from a stranger. If I’m sitting at home some afternoon blogging or watching tv, I’m sure as shit not watching anyone’s kid. You’d have a hard enough time at 9 am on a Saturday of convincing me to babysit a kid I know nevermind some crackwhore’s child. Shit is nuts.
And exactly how long did he wait before he began to think this was strange? Two hours? 5? Was it later that evening? Did he change diapers or feed the kid? Did he have a rough estimate as to how long an AC repair would take or was this just open ended from the start.
How was this even illegal actually? Shitty parenting sure, but the guy agreed, and then had the audacity to call the cops because the babysitting some random junkies kid suddenly became inconvenient. Have some decency bro, you make an open ended commitment to some strung out crackhead then you've got to honor that. If not the whole system falls apart.
