Single mom arrested for ‘abandoning’ her kids at food court while interviewing for job 30 feet away

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78. No, I didn't ignore how the subthread was started, but why does it matter?

That wasn't the post you were responding to, for one thing. For another, I guess I didn't read that particular post hte same way you did. I read it as a general statement, one that I agree with at least in part. I do think that people should be careful that they aren't making a knee jerk reaction before they decide to call the police in matters like this. It's hard to know what happened in this case, but if I were to see a six year old by themselves in a mall I wouldn't immediately call the police. I would try to find out if they were lost, first. It's hard to say what happened, but it seems to me if the child were asked it would have been obvious what happened. But, however it went down, no arrest should have been made and that's the larger issue.