A 26-year-old Barnesville woman was arrested in Clayton County last night after she allegedly left her four-month-old twins locked in her car in the heat while she shopped at a Wal-Mart shopping center.
Officials said the twins were left in the car for 15-30 minutes.
Jenesia Williams
FOUR-MONTH Old that is the big deal. Found by a passer-by, that is the big deal. Why would anyone, never mind....there is no answer anymore.
I visit my hometown quite often and the doublewides and prefabricated homes I see leaves very little room for anyone to disparage the poor or people on welfare.
Usually people hate most the things they hate in themselves. I hope you don't have trouble cashing your welfare check.
#6 for you to even ask such a question makes me believe that you don't follow the news. Pull your head out of whatever state it is in and look around.
Give the poor boy some freedom Sheila!
Does the woman understand what she did was wrong? And I ask this question in all seriousness because I really have trouble believing she isn't either mentally incapacitated or dangerously stupid.
Now, what happens to the babies?
Anonymous #8, babies this young have no way to deal with this kind of heat. And if they were buckled in their car seats, they could only sit immobilized while their temperatures rose and eventually they died of heatstroke.
Congratulations to the hero that phoned the police. Give that person a humanitarian award. The only thing better would have been to bust out the window and open the door until the police arrived.
The paper should give some publicity to the person that took action and called the police which perhaps saved the lives of two innocent children that couldn’t help themselves. We all should say thanks to that person.
Thank you for being an American hero not afraid to get involved. You will no doubt be rewarded for this deed someday in your life.
maybe a "private" humanitarian award is in order.
This irresponsible act (reckless disregard for others) crosses all demographic lines. I'm afraid.
And let's have one thread up here, just one, that makes no reference to race, please.
How are people as a whole ever going to get past racism when everything is turned into a black or white issue? GROW UP!
it's funny to me however that she tends to piss off people named Anonymous.
These Anon folk are one defensive bunch...
Who is the Anon tribe, or are they a clan? Maybe a militia... A family? Where do they derive from? Who knows? They must all have big feet... They seem to get their toes stepped on a lot...
Also to address all of the welfare comments, I would be happy to tell you all that despite her mistake, Ms. Williams does carry a bachelor degree and does have a good job. If the government still wanted to give her foodstamps, wic, medicaid or any other kind of assistance then oh well, maybe you should be complain to the government.
As for Sheila,you were here yesterday and you came back today. Someone must have really pissed you off. GET A LIFE YOU SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER HAGGARD!!!!!!!
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years (so proved by state court manslaughter cases), it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.
This is a problem we are seeing more and more of in recent years. I tend to think it is because we as a society are getting busier and busier - perhaps even to our own detriment and that of our families. The quality of prior parental care seems to be irrelevant. The important factors that keep showing up involve what seems to be a combination of stress, emotion, lack of sleep and change in routine, and the conscious mind is too weakened to resist.
Thank goodness in this case the children didn't die and Ms. Williams has a severe wake up call to make parenting her top priority and not whatever she felt she had to get in the store.
exhibiting symptoms of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
I think you are just trying to use big words to be impressive. this is not Ms Tolley at all. First of all,she does not seem to be afraid that someone is out to get her. If she was, she would hold her tongue more. Second, her personality never waivers and stays constant. Call her personality what you will, it's not bipolar.
Pick another big ol' word. dat one ainst rite.
Example: You just turned to name calling. I wouldn't call that setting the example. Would you? But that is how you feel and you expressed it.
You, along with Andrew in comment 22.1.1 can arrive at all kinds of excuses or research all kinds of stats. What with all the media attention this subject gets every year, there is no excuse to lock babies in a hot car while you go shopping.
I (and ineffectively so, I guess) was trying to point out that I think as a society we have gotten so busy (read: preoccupied) that we can't even be bothered with the welfare of our own children.
If that is the case 'Gary' then we will only see problems like this more frequently and penalties less stringent.
Weren't there a few cases of kids dying last year in similar situations?
I won't be doing it because I already know it's too hot and it's too dangerous.
I am totally sure your facts are correct and documented. However, I thank my Holy Jesus that I have never been: so stressed, unemotional, sleepy, resistant to change and unconscious enough to leave a four month old little baby in a car in the broiling hot sun.
With all respect, I was trying to play devil's advocate and raise a point that perhaps as a society we are becoming busy to the point where we no longer have time for even the welfare of ourselves or our children. If that be the case, we will only continue to see these issues surface.
Park your cars and rode a horse to work. ...Oh wait, they are trying to regulate the "gasses" from them too.
Liberals are ridiculous. Crack open an almanac lately?