Mum Boots Bickering Kids From Car (You Know You’ve Wanted To)
Posted by KeriF at 4:00 PM on April 23, 2009
I won’t pretend to scratch my head in ignorance, wondering how on earth a mother could kick her children to the curb after they fail to heed the 87th warning to “STOP FIGHTING RIGHT THIS INSTANT OR I PROMISE YOU I’LL PULL RIGHT OVER AND LEAVE YOU TWO ON THE STREET DON’T TEMPT ME I’LL REALLY DO IT!”
I completely understand the urge. I’ve felt the urge, after driving 10 kilometres with the feet of a 3-year-old planted firmly in my back, or listening to yet another argument between my son and his cousin about whether or not the Beast dies at the end of Beauty and the Beast, or hearing my 8-year-old niece wax poetic about how wonderful girls are and how yucky boys are, all within earshot of my two adorable (and yes, sometimes yucky) boys, or simmering with a migraine while five kids in the car decide to see who can scream the loudest.
But unlike this woman, I never acted on that urge.
Madlyn Primoff, a 45-year-old lawyer (lawyer! So she can’t even claim she didn’t know that abandoning her kids was illegal!) left her kids in downtown White Plains, NY after they wouldn’t stop fighting in the car. Her 12-year-old daughter ran after Mum’s car, where she was let in and joined Mum in her escape home to Scarsdale. The 10-year-old daughter stood on the street crying, until a good samaritan called the police (after buying the little girl ice cream).
Here’s the kicker: Before police were able to get in touch with Mum, she called police herself to report her daughter “missing.”
Primoff was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and being really, really, really stupid. She is temporarily forbidden contact with her daughters.
Do you have an ounce of sympathy for this woman?
No, not really! I can definitely understand the urge, but actually doing it is another thing entirely. Particularly that she let her other daughter in and just kept on driving.
The 10 year old was just lucky that it was a good Samaritan!
You don’t let it get that far so that the only choice is to kick your kids out of the car. You never, never throw your kids out of the car. Too many things can happen to a minor on their own in this world, even for a short distance from their home. And by the way, where was the father?