Bel Air, Maryland (The Weekly Vice) -- An evening of fun turned out to be a moment of extreme embarrassment for a family who left a 4-year-old girl at Chuck E. Cheese - but didn't realize she had been left behind until they saw her on television the next day.
According to Hartford County authorities, 4-year-old Deshawna Tyson joined her aunt, aunt's boyfriend and eight other children on a Sunday evening outing to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.
When it was time for the family to go, the aunt and her boyfriend loaded the kids into two cars and headed home. Both parties believed Deshawna was riding with the other party.
Investigators were called when the little girl was found wandering alone inside the restaurant at about 7 p.m. Sunday night.
When Deshawna's mother came home later that evening, she want straight to bed, according to investigators. No one seemed to notice Deshawna was missing until the mother and aunt saw Deshawna's photo on television early the next morning.
The family rushed to the Hartford County Sheriff's office at about 8:40 Monday morning. The child was reunited with her family and is working with social services to resolve child care issues.
The Sheriff's Office has determined that charges with not be filed in the case.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
So what do you think? Is this issue an honest mistake, an issue of neglect or old fashioned stupidity?
Danny Vice
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If she's the only child I would say "NEGLECT" -- and if they have multiple children, why do they have multiple children if they are not gonna give each one of them the attention they deserve? Never mind, .. WELFARE!!
I don't get it. I have 3 kids and I don't care if I work until 1am and come home and my wife says they are all asleep I peak my head in the room not because I don't believe her but I do it just to see them peacefully in their bed. Whatever man I am sure the mother is innocent in all this and it is unfortunate that she will have to deal with child protective services for awhile but maybe she needs to rethink if her sister is responsible enough to watch her kid.
I don't have any kids, but I know I would never just come home and go straight to bed without checking on my kids. Maybe it's a good thing the mother has to deal with child services. I hope it will teach her a lesson. The outcome could have been worse.
It worked out for Macaulay Culkin.
I can see how this could happen by accident.
I'm from a family of 9 children, things can get very confusing, very fast. I know that you would never show more attention to little Jimmy over little Kimmy, but when Kimmy is sick, tired, and wining trust me Jimmy takes a back seat in the attention department.
I can remember many times of my parents not being able to use the correct name with the child they were talking with. Now if they just called you Jack, but your name is Fred, you can bet in 15 minutes they'll remember talking to Jack, and not you.
i truly believe this is an honest mistake and anyone who cant cant see this possibility is probably an ASSHAT who never had dealt with a large group of kids before.
I'm glad the little girl is alright. Her monther shouldn't be subjected to CPS, but the aunt shouldn't be allowed to watch the kids anymore. She should have known better.
I'm there with BryanY. I have three children ranging in age from 6-20 and it doesn't matter when I get home from work or where I may be, I always check on the kids as does my wife.
I agree, really dumb mistake and it can't ever happen again.
But I will say this. At least they made an effort to get all the kids out of the house for an evening. So many families don't even talk to each other and are running in opposite directions all the time. At least it's a family that tries to be together.
I wouldn't call that kind of effort neglect.
There's a lot of families that do nothing with their kids. They work all day and never talk to their kids. That to me is more a case of neglect than just being really airheaded one night.
I'm not defending them... just stating that I think it was a very bad mistake.
When my child is on an overnight I ALWAYS call to say good night. I just want him to go to bed knowing I love him. It may have been an honest mistake, but kinda pathetic too.
I had a licensed day care provider do this once, with her own kid, while she was watching mine!! And she left him at my place of employment, to boot.... let's just say that was the last time she watched my kid.... I picked him up as soon as I could (w/in 30 min!!), and placed him with my sister in law. I at least new whe wouldn't 'forget' a child!!! Too bad these people did, sad mistake, now the little girls prob. gonna think no one cares about her. Unfortunately she might be right!!
This is an honest mistake.Not everyone should be charged for criminal offenses.Things do happen.It should be about the persons intentions-if they are uncaring and commit neglect or if they are sinister and abuse and cause harm-these are criminal offenses.Sometimes mistakes do happen by even loving,caring protective people.We shouldn't vilify everyone who makes a mistake because there are so many criminals out there who do horrific things.We shouldn't lump then in the same catagory.
The parent's probably already feel bad.The remedy shouldn't be any charges but for them to learn from this,to take more caution in the future when they have a big group and to buy the little girl some icecream and give her lots of hugs and tell her they love her lots and that they didn't mean to leave her there and that it wasn't a reflection on her.
I don't think protective services resources should be wasted on cases like this where the parents probably love and care for her very much but just made a stupid mistake.Theres children being molested,beated and raped and they claim they dont have enough resources to help everyone-no wonder they dont because they're misusing/abusing resources to where their not really needed in cases like this where they should be sending child protective services where there really is willful neglect and/or abuse being committed.
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