Another WTF regarding kids. DJ rescues naked toddler girl from traffic.

[Maddy McCall]

DJ saves wandering baby from traffic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Monday, July 7th 2008, 7:05 AM

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A Jersey City disc jockey returning from a canceled gig rescued a naked 2-year-old girl who was about to wander into traffic.

Harvey King he was driving home from a job he was to have played at Liberty State Park Sunday morning when he spotted the toddler about to cross a busy intersection. He stopped, grabbed her and drove her to a police station.

King says several people just stood and watched as the child wandered around the neighborhood shortly before 11 a.m.

She was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center where she was examined and found to be in good health. She's now in the custody of the state Division of Youth and Family Services.


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/07/07/2008-07-07_dj_saves_wandering_baby_from_traffic.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Some of the locals might have been paranoid

A lot of people (especially single men who live alone) may not want to explain to police what exactly they were doing with naked 2-year old.

[GCP]

2. What a cop out

People behaving badly - yet again - and it's because of them being worried about being thought a child predator?
I'm so sick of excuses being made for shit like this.
A child is in obvious danger and you stand there and watch it?
Shame on them.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I live right across the street...

From the prosecutor's sex crime unit. I know how they are and how they operate. If an unrelated male was found in the possession of a naked 2-year-old, they would commence to ripping that person's life apart. Know that.

No matter how innocent or noble his intentions might be.

Those people across the street? They ain't like you and me.

[Maddy McCall]

5. So? Then stand there with her and call the police.

I cannot believe DUers are actually defending assholes who stand there and watch a baby wander around nude in the streets.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. I am trying to explain...

The fear that grips us when confronted by such a problem. It is not an irrational fear, at all.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. The odd thing about it is that a related male would be a more likely criminal

Statistics may lie, but the odds are low for the unrelated male to be a perp, and high for the related male.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. Really doesn't matter to them.

They are Pavlovian in their responses: Older male, naked young girl, me arrest something.

[Cronus Protagonist]

16. I'd bet money you would be right. n/t

[Maddy McCall]

3. Only if they've got a stash of kiddie porn in their closet.

I can't for the life of me imagine why "I might be accused of molestation" would be something ANYONE would think while watching this tiny child wander in and out of traffic.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. And they WOULD search that closet you know

Who knows what's in my closets? I don't. And I don't want the police to be looking through them either. I would call 911 and make sure the kid didn't go anywhere unsafe, myself. Taking her into a car and along to the police station was a dumb move. What happened in the car? You know that's going to be the first thought in the cop's mind, and perhaps rightly so.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Maddy:

Their computers would go out the door, never to be seen again. They would run exhaustive background checks. They would "ask around", which is to say, hear the vilest gossip and unwarranted suspicions. Insanity would ensue.

There is a guy around here, not the brightest bulb in God's little chandelier, who lives with a woman with a young daughter. He, this woman and her family were all living together across the street from me. They had some problems with a vile couple down the street, who were, to these experienced eyes, selling drugs. The kind of drugs you go looking for at 2, 3, 4 in the AM. The kind that creates comings and goings at those hours.

Well, vile couple finally got the heat put on them, they told the cops that Dimbulb was molesting the daughter. He was not. Cops charged him and took his computer. They grilled the little girl 6 times. Not once did she say that she was molested, because she was not. Finally, the guy was convicted on OTHER trumped-up charges and got 9 months. He never saw the computer again.

That is how it works.

[aquamarina]

12. Really?

No one could have called 911 while another of the spectators went after the kid? How many people witnessed this? Could they not then co-oberate what they saw? The person who rescued the child was a man so are we (or the cops) to assume that he was a molester instead of a good samaritan? I realize the truth of what you are saying but there was a naked 2 year old in danger of being run over and unless it was impossible to rescue the child without the rescuer being harmed then rescuing the child should be the priority, period.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. It's the fear.

Fear is our constant companion these days and colors everything we do.

[aquamarina]

15. Maybe,

unless we act to stop being afraid and one of the best ways to stop being afraid is to know your rights and always have a witness.

[my2sense]

11. Unfortunately

we live in a society where we can get into deep shit for doing the "right thing". I wouldn't want to be alone with a naked toddler. I would have wrapped her up, called the cops, and held her there until authorities arrived.

[Occulus]

14. IN VIEW of witnesses, you should add

Never, ever, under any circumstances should you have contact with a child you don't know when there are not witnesses, in the plural, to the entire sequence (and it's better if it's people who you don't know).

The threat of wrongful prosecution for a life-destroying sex crime charge is far too real to behave any differently.