Mother Values A Box More Than Her Daughter

An Alabama mother has been charged with endangering the welfare of her teenager. The teenager was sitting in a cardboard box on top of her minivan down a main road. Albertville cops arrested the 37-year-old mother. Police collected a number of phone calls that a minivan on the highway had a child riding on top.

The woman when questioned by cops reported that the box was too large to fit in the minivan and they needed it. Therefore, the only thing to do was place the box on top of the van. She said that the box would have fallen off so she had her daughter get in the box in order to hold it down.

When police questioned the woman about how safe that was for her child she disclosed that she had secured the box with a clothes hanger. So what I am trying to know from this story is how a clothes hanger would secure the box.

Maybe she hooked the hanger around the rack on the top of the minivan and then poked it through the box so the girl could clasp on or something. Either way, this is the most unwise thing I have heard anyone do in an extended amount of time. I award this mother the “idiot of the week award.”

Even though the 13-year-old girl was on the top in the box she wasn’t injured. The mother was out on bond shortly after the incident. What doesn’t make sense to me is why she couldn’t crush the box or find a cord to attach it on.

It seems like a big jump to go from it won’t fit in the car to jump on top and I will attempt to drive home carefully. I wonder what the rest of her relations thought of the event. They probably thought it was okay just like the mother.

Not only was this stupid but it was extremely dangerous. The girl would have landed on the road if for any reason her mother would have slammed on the breaks. She would have gotten road rash, in all probability have head trauma, and possibly been struck by her mothers or anothers vehicle.

This event could have turned into a tragedy but coincidentally it didn’t. It makes me wonder if this lady is one of those parents that drives around with her children on her lap instead of in a car seat. It is against the law for children not to be restrained while sitting in the car because it’s unsafe.

Some parents just don’t take their children’s safety seriously. If anything would have happened there wouldn’t have been anything to save her. The mother in the car had a seatbelt, airbags, and the iron and steel on her car to protect her but this girl had nothing. This cardboard box wouldn’t have stood up to anything. Plus she would have flown out of it beforehand. I hope that the law enforcement comes down hard on this lady because she is absolutely nuts!

Diane Johnson graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah and enjoys writing about current events, politics, college degrees, education online, and the office.

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