WWYD -- unbelted toddler in front seat?

I know is the law Samara, but I also think your taxes (where the 911 salaries come) will be better invested chasing domestic violence, drug dealers, child abuse or many other horrible crimes that all societies (including mine) are so full of.

The lady is a little irresponsable, yes... she deserve a warning, yes... but she is not a criminal...

And that is my final post on the subject because I'm leaving to the movies and don't feel like translate my very own long rambligs at the point... LOL
 
I agree with the other ladies about taking the license plate number and calling the police. I happen to know that something like that is considered NEGLECT according to AZ statutes...
 
OrianaVianey said:
I know is the law Samara, but I also think your taxes (where the 911 salaries come) will be better invested chasing domestic violence, drug dealers, child abuse or many other horrible crimes that all societies (including mine) are so full of.

The lady is a little irresponsable, yes... she deserve a warning, yes... but she is not a criminal...

And that is my final post on the subject because I'm leaving to the movies and don't feel like translate my very own long rambligs at the point... LOL
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If her child died because of not wearing a seat belt or not being in a booster seat, she would most likely be convicted of manslaughter, so yes, technically she is a criminal since she is breaking the law by not properly restraining her child. Even if it was legal, there is no good reason for putting your child at risk. None.
 
ITA. Not restraining your child properly can KILL them. Just not ok. It's not worth the risk IMO. Yes, my children have screamed from the backseat while I was driving because they didn't want to be in their carseats, but I would NEVER let them go anywhere, not even a block, without being in their carseats properly. A friend from high school held her baby in her lap while she was driving 2 blocks to her mother's house. She had a wreck on the way and the baby died. There is just no sense in that.
 
Dawn I totally would have done the same thing!!!

When I see things like that my tummy starts to ache and I almost get sick to my stomach!!!! But I'm a freak like that and I won't even let my kids SIT in our parked van without being buckled in because I'm scared to death someone will just plow into us!!! To many crazy drivers out there!!! But I'm a paranoid freak so I take things to the extreme!!! :blink:
 
My kids rearface until age 2 and are in a harness as long as possible--DS1 is 5 years and 40 lbs and still has a long way to go before he outgrows his 5 pt harness. Thanks for this thread--if I had seen something like this I would have been horrified and haunted by it later, but would not really have known what to do. Now I do. I don't know if it comes down to regional differences in attitudes or enforcement, but thankfully I never see kids riding without age-appropriate seats or belts here.
 
I'd have gotten the tag number and called her in. That is ridiculous and I couldn't have gone on about my day without knowing I'd done everything I could to try to keep that little girl safe. :(

But this is coming from a mom who still has her 6 year old in a 5 point harness and has called to report daycare providers for not having passengers in proper carseats while doing school pickups. :p I may be a touch extreme in my views in this area. :p
 
I'd have to call it in... so sad to think what could happen.

our little man will be harnessed as long as possible. heck, he was still rear-facing until THIS WEEK and he'll be 3 in December. he was so confused... kept trying to turn around while we were buckling him in. :D
 
Wow. Creepy. So my husband is a social worker (works with child welfare and protective services a lot) and I asked him about this. He says every state is different, but you should definitely call 911 if you see something like that. In most states, any time a report comes in about a child possibly in danger (and yes, this qualifies as I think every state now has seatbelt laws at least for children), the police are required to at least check it out. Nothing would happen to her (since they couldn't prove anything) other than them telling her they had received a complaint and they needed to ask her some questions. They would probably then scare the hell out of her. If nothing else, maybe a knock on her door from the cops or child services would make the Mom think next time she puts her child in the car?

On a side note, here in Hawaii they recently passed new child restraint laws that require children under 4'9" to be in a booster seat in the back seat in any moving vehicle, regardless of age (well, maybe until they're legally driving, I don't know)....that means I would have been in a booster seat until I was in 9th grade!!!!!!!!!!! ha! :blink:
 
Traci Reed said:
Honestly, I have no tolerance, I would've held up my phone and mouthed 911 and if she had ignored me, I'd have called 911. People like that need to have their kids taken away. MORON.

<sigh>
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That's exactly what I would've done. It makes me SOOO angry when I see little ones in danger like that. And, not only the fact that she was without a seatbelt, but she was in the front seat!! If it was a newer car, the airbags could kill her if an impact didn't. I just don't understand how people can gamble with something SO precious. :cursing:
 
there's a mum at our school whose son is 6 and in Kindy. He sits in the back seat without a seat belt next to his 4 yr old brother also without a seat belt. Then in the front seat is their 2yr old brother who sits on top of a cushion on the front seat without a seat belt. The other thing is that they are Asian and are very small build so actually look even younger than they are. Oh yeah, the mum, DOES wear her seatbelt!
 
So my husband is a social worker (works with child welfare and protective services a lot) and I asked him about this. He says every state is different, but you should definitely call 911 if you see something like that. In most states, any time a report comes in about a child possibly in danger (and yes, this qualifies as I think every state now has seatbelt laws at least for children), the police are required to at least check it out. Nothing would happen to her (since they couldn't prove anything) other than them telling her they had received a complaint and they needed to ask her some questions. They would probably then scare the hell out of her. If nothing else, maybe a knock on her door from the cops or child services would make the Mom think next time she puts her child in the car?
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Hmmm, thanks Jen for that info. It never even occurred to me to call 911 or the police. When broke into our car last year, they seemed extremely uninterested -- took a bored report over the phone, never even came to look at the car, and we never heard anything else about it. So, I would have assumed the police would just laugh if I called in about something like this. I'm glad to hear that they might take it seriously.
 
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