Re: and [requested that she] limit who comes around himpolaris93February 26 2011, 19:06:13 UTC
I would, too -- though maybe she doesn't have enough money to make it worth it.
One thing that struck me about this was the call she made to the mother of the boy who was burned: "I got the phone call at 2:10 in the morning telling me there had been a minor incident," Smith told AOL News. "She said my son was OK and wanted to know if he could have ibuprofen." If I'd had a child in my care who'd been burned, I'd have called the child's parents and told them exactly what had happened, rather than that rather unsatisfactory bit.
And whether the teenager who burned the other boy was my kid or not, I'd also have made sure that he was in custody, so that he wouldn't present a danger to others -- which also makes me wonder about just how competent those cops were, because there's nothing about his being taken into custody there.
There may be parts of the story missing. Otherwise it sounds like quite a few people involved in that incident didn't know what the hell they were doing. Did any of the adults downstairs who helped put out the boy who was on fire talk with the police? What else was said? I'm really going to try to follow this up.
One thing that struck me about this was the call she made to the mother of the boy who was burned: "I got the phone call at 2:10 in the morning telling me there had been a minor incident," Smith told AOL News. "She said my son was OK and wanted to know if he could have ibuprofen." If I'd had a child in my care who'd been burned, I'd have called the child's parents and told them exactly what had happened, rather than that rather unsatisfactory bit.
And whether the teenager who burned the other boy was my kid or not, I'd also have made sure that he was in custody, so that he wouldn't present a danger to others -- which also makes me wonder about just how competent those cops were, because there's nothing about his being taken into custody there.
There may be parts of the story missing. Otherwise it sounds like quite a few people involved in that incident didn't know what the hell they were doing. Did any of the adults downstairs who helped put out the boy who was on fire talk with the police? What else was said? I'm really going to try to follow this up.
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