Yes, leave it to the relatives, because they're not the people who raised this guy.Police: NZ man at strip club leaves baby in car
Published: 04/13/10 at 5:39 PM | Updated: 04/14/10 at 1:14 AM
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police arrested a man for leaving his 1-year-old baby in a car unattended during the early hours while he watched strippers at a nightclub in New Zealand’s capital, and have placed the boy in welfare agency care.
A passer-by called police after seeing the sleeping baby in a car parked near the Mermaid Strip Club in Wellington about 3 a.m. Tuesday.
Police took the baby to hospital and arrested the father, 42, after he was located in the club, Inspector Simon Perry said. The man faces a charge of leaving a child under 14 without reasonable supervision, Perry said.
The Child, Youth and Family agency has custody of the baby for five days while it works with the baby’s relatives to decide on his future, agency deputy chief executive Ray Smith said.
New Zealand’s commissioner for children, John Angus, said leaving a child alone in a car at night was an “extreme form of neglect.”
“I would commend the member of the public who saw this poor child in the car and took some action to make it safe” by alerting police, Angus told National Radio.
Authorities declined to confirm details of the baby’s family situation, but Angus said he expected relatives to step in and warn the father that “it’s not good enough for our child to be looked after this way.”
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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It would have been potentially scary and very expensive to take the kid in with him. Jeepers will no one think of the children, here.
Likes A Good Time Too Editor Wonders:
Was someone celebrating something at the not-Old, just a bit used-looking Mermaid?
In further developments from Texas,
A McKinney man faces child endangerment charges after leaving his toddler and infant alone in his car for an hour and a half while he visited a Dallas strip club, police said.
Michael Galloway's 9-month-old and 3-year-old were discovered late Friday by a tow truck driver across the street from Pandora's Men's Club in the 10600 block of Harry Hines Boulevard. The windows of the car were up and the doors were locked, said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, a Dallas police spokesman.
"He was illegally parked," Janse said. "The tow truck driver spotted it when he was making a routine check of the area."
Neglect Editor Almost Forgets:
Tejas, land of our father, where they do it on a grand scale: Twice the children at risk, & illegal parking.
These United Snakes have a par-boiled baby in a car story every few yrs. (It's often because mom wanted to shop.) so we're happy to see more men distinguishing themselves in the field.
Granted, it's tougher to boil baby in the middle of the night than during the hot American day, so it may be a while before the male-induced mortality rate catches up.
Hatin' on Whitey Dep't.: Is this sort of thing limited to us English-speaking peoples?
I figured that the Texas incident was a copycat crime.
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