...but they call it baby-sitting... No one ever said anything about having to chase after the dang thing!

You got that right fedup... it can take a kid 5 seconds to do permanent damage to themselves with even the most vigilant adult around. I have 4 kids, and double that many ulcers!

Hey SactoJD, ulcers are caused by bacteria, not stress, go do some reading on this and get some antibiotics to cure you ulcers

This baby sitter was without a doubt irresponsible, but I am not sure that she did anything criminal. If the kid did in fact open the window himself, I do not see anything that could be considered criminal about her actions. I am not sure that a two year old opening a window and crawling out is something that most people would anticipate happening. How many stories do we read every year about kids getting themselves into trouble when a parent looks away for a minute. I am sure that no one will be using this woman as a baby sitter again in the future, but I do not see where she did anything that rises to the level of being criminal. If we are going to start charging parents every time a child that is in their care manages to get in trouble and hurt themselves we better start building a lot more prisons.

Hopefully the child will not suffer any permanent effects from his injuries.

I hope the police are at least going to see how hard or easy it is to open this window?????

yeah i dont see a crime here, just irresponsibility on both the baby sitter for falling asleep without making sure the child is secure and the parents for not child-proofing the space. the child in this story acted on its own.

i fear a country where laws are created just to make citizens criminals, of course we have been doing just that.

Here's an interesting case for me to think about.

My two year old is smart (not "parent-complimenting-kid" smart, but by no means is he genius either) but I don't think he could open any of the windows in our house much less climb to the roof. What proof is there that this was the case?

If it is, shame on the babysitter. If it isn't, like I suspect, lock her up and throw away the key.

Swagganaut........good post...read the book '3 felonies a day'....the laws to trap innocent people have already been passed. Bush really left a corrupt legacy.

Hey SactoJD, ulcers are caused by bacteria, not stress, go do some reading on this and get some antibiotics to cure you ulcers

Hey, Unknown-1839085. Stress increases inflammation, which can cause the body to have low resistance to bacteria, viruses or anything else that causes disease. Maybe you should do some reading yourself, or possibility take some courses to educate yourself before attacking others and revealing your ignorance.

Unknown, go get the book "101 Jokes for Stiffs",, it might help, but I sort of doubt it.

The way this kid sounds (lively) you would have to put a leash on him so you use the washroom.

Yeah....laws, boy-- it's created a spot for about 1.5 million lawyers to make a lot of money!! (have no idea how many, really) If this babysitter is any kind of a normal social being, she is punished for LIFE. Devastating....Unless she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, that bond is a joke!

bubba-1946427, exactly right. A two year old opening a window? I call BS!

JS in SD - I do not see anything that could be considered criminal about her actions. I am not sure that a two year old opening a window and crawling out is something that most people would anticipate happening. How many stories do we read every year about kids getting themselves into trouble when a parent looks away for a minute. ... but I do not see where she did anything that rises to the level of being criminal.

Here's where you are wrong (and some of the other posts I have read by you show a lack of intellect). The babysitter is being charged with negligence. Under tort law, "Negligence is conduct that falls below the standards of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. A person has acted negligently if he or she has departed from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudent person acting under similar circumstances."

This woman did not "look away for a minute", SHE WAS ASLEEP when she was supposed to be watching this child. She deserves to be charged with negligence.

Mozzie- She is guilty of negligence no doubt. She took on the role as Baby-sitter and failed to meet normal childcare standards. I know if I got a baby-sitter to watch my daughter and I find out she fell asleep, I'd kick her out on the spot, no pay, and possibly think of going after her for being negligant. Jail time no but paying for doctor bills and any future med problems due to this most deff.

Actually, I think the court said that YOU were ordered to have no contact with kids, including your own if you have any.

Ahoy Matey! Good point! How true you are. Regardless of her order she can go on to have her own children. Something doesn't seem right about that.

What has that got to do with it? She was being paid to watch the kid, not sleep.

The babysitters res is where it all happened. Hell next go after her for undeclared taxes. she's over 18 so it aint just a little summer job.

...and she was sleeping at 5:30 p.m.?

jake

LOL how can a 2 yr old open a window?

I had a two year old. Open the roll-up garage door from the inside, and I had removed the handle from the door. It can happen.

Jake, I agree. How does a 2 yr. old open a window.

With his hands?

Could be a push out window.

You have my deepest condolences at the loss of your child.

Parkerite, perhaps you missed the part where he said she's lucky to be alive and "have fun with the rehab"?

You can if that's your JOB and you are being PAID to do your JOB! lol

My mom did! she knew where we were and where are toys were. Hope my wheres were in the right place, sorry spelling police.

My youngest girl fell on a playground and broke her elbow at 8, does that mean the teacher watching should have been fired and prosecuted? Accidents happen- be it while parents present or not.

Your story, Stephen, is an entirely different one. Your situation was an accident. The babysitter's situation was negligence. The two scenarios aren't alike at all.

I guess you've never taken a nap in the afternoon. Gack! Thank God you are not judge and jury. As for the kid, opening the window and climbing out and up on the roof is quite a surprise. If this kid did all this while his mother took a nap, I wonder how many of you hate-mongers would be cursing her and asking for the death penalty. Gack!

"Gack?" What a nerd - AND you had to use it twice!

I picture a girl that's going to college and maybe stayed up too late- hopefully not because she was partying. But, yes, let's get testimony from every witness possible and see how many parents go to jail for negligence!!

Really? Maybe you're the one on drugs. Gack!

Jennifer... Asumption is the mother of all F**kups.

And here I thought misspelling assumption was.

Anrkist that is a GREAT response! Ha ha ha!!!!!

PAJ-642 if u havnt seen a house with windows on second floor you need to look up more often when u walk down the road,they didnt say he climbed upto the roof they sed he climbed out a second storey window onto the roof

jennifer do u have the money to drug test every bodey and whait the two weaks for the test results then have to go through it till u find someone hope u give a breathalizer to

I agree that this country has turned into a society of blamers, but on the other hand, there are too many people trying to get something for nothing. If you pay a nanny or someone otherwise holding herself out to be a child-care professional, it costs you a lot of money. If you let young girls or illegal aliens watch your kids, you get what you pay for. Teenagers are not as responsible as they were fifty or twenty years ago, and you can't be sure they aren't taking drugs or playing with their boyfriends when they should be paying attention to the baby. I think the only people who should be charged with a crime in the event of an accident or an infant's death are the people who hold themselves out to be professional nannies. I think you get what you pay for. Instead, try splitting a nanny with another couple. You get a better quality nanny with training and someone who knows how to react to trouble and medical emergencies.

I fell asleep once as a babysitter when I was 16. I certainly didn't try to fall asleep and I wasn't under the influence. If anything had happened to those kids (4 and 6) I would never have lived it down. I still get embarassed just thinking about the cold look I got when I was awakened by their parents. SMH.

However, on the other side if I was the parent I'd probably need to be restrained from hurting her.

Wrong continent (that's Europe) and there's no proof she's a witch anyway.

(...okay, we could see if she weighs the same as a duck, but loading my larger scales on the truck and driving up to Hartford is going to take at least an hour and a half!)

It's Tears in Heaven and it was his 4 year old son, Conor in 1991.

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards.

I for one tied towel around my neck and tried to fly like Superman off top bar of swing set. I believe my mother said I was 3. To this day she has no idea how i got on top bar.

I wanted to see if the cigarette lighter still got hot even when the car was off. It did. And I know there are LOTS of you who did that, too. It is a funny, stupid story and the car smelled funny. My Dad never said a word. He didn't have to. LOL

When i was about 3 I was with my mother at the drugstore/soda fountain (dates me) she had me on a leash fastened to a harness. A woman came into the store and had a total fit. She demanded my mother remove the leash. The store owner and my mother told her she would remove the leash if the woman would watch me and be responsible for me. She agreed. Well, While she was talking to both my mother and the store owner, then looked down and I was no where to be seen. She searched the store frantic to find me. Funny part was I was at the owners feed eating an ice cream cone he had given me. The woman had to pay for the ice cream cone since she was in charge. Anytime we met for many years after that she always remembered me and how much of a fool she had made of herself. At least she was able to admit it.

Your mom let you jump off a roof to learn a lesson??? What'd you learn? How not to be a dumb@ss. it should of tought you that she really didnt care about you. Sorry to break it to you

Kids are throw away now a days! Society stinks!! One could have and most likely was a mistake the other on purpose. One wasn't the girls, one wasthe girls. Still not making sense!

Our local bartender was apparently a serious cocaine dealer and got a $10,000 bond. I'm not saying she is guiltless in this, but I agree with the Zappa quote. It's like squirrels write the laws and monkeys enforce them.