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A rowdy sleepover party in Connecticut ended with a grandmother in handcuffs on Sunday morning.
Middletown police charged 71-year old Barbara Aiello with two counts of risk of injury to a minor after alleging she forced two children, ages 11 and 10, to walk home alone at 4:30 am Sunday in frigid temperatures.
"I said you you and you out. Everybody out," said Aiello, who has been raising her grandson, Christopher, since his father died last year.
"I opened the door. Not thinking. Not realizing the time. I was angry and said 'go home'."
Aiello says she had a lot on her mind that night. Her husband was in intensive care at Middlesex Hospital because of complications following a stroke.
She says the kids, who she believed to be 12 or 13, were being very loud. After repeated warnings to stop, she decided the sleepover was over.
"When things got out of hand, I went up there. I was very angry and said both of ya's -- out!"
Police say they were contacted by one the children's parents Sunday morning when they awoke to find the kids unexpectedly home.
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Handcuffs, fingerprints and sitting in a cell were not things this grandmother ever experienced before.
"I felt like I had murdered somebody. That's how I was treated."
Aiello says she has yet to hear from either of the children's parents and wishes they had called her before contacting police.
"Why didn't they come over and say Mrs. Aiello, 'Why did you throw my kids out at 4:30-5 in morning?' None of that."
Middletown police say the case is continuing to be investigated. Aiello is scheduled to appear in court on February 11th.
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Too many grandparents find themselves rearing their grandchildren these days. Could it be the parents are dead, drug addicts of just missing? It could also be that their children cannot find a job that pays a descent wage, and I believe this granny should not be punished for making a bad decision under such stress. The children made it home safe, (and they lived close by), and everyone learned a lesson!
Dad's dead, no mention of mother.
These are children who have parents who don't know how to raise them. Disrespect for one's elders is very common these days. This is because parents aren't parents and they don't accept responsibility for their children. Our society has come to this and it's pathetic!
Unbelievable!!! It's no wonder kids nowadays are disrespectful little brats.. They're not held accountable for their behavior.. Doesn't this state have bigger fish to fry??
When you lower your standards time and time again to reach racial equality, this is what you become. Imagine what it would be like if we had expected everyone to reach for a higher level of humanity.
If im not mistaken...When this country was founded these kids would have been old enough to carry a firearm and kill for there country...but now there not old enough to walk home alone...Pffft...LIL bastards probably learned a thing or two that night...Respect your elders !!!
I know. Couldn't believe the ages - thought they must have been about 5 or 6 when I saw the headline.
what the hell is this country coming to first a major hoax at sandy hook and now this crap come on wtf is going on I'm sure glad I grew up in the 60's and the 70's where life was real dang send your kids companions home and only a few hundred yards wow I think somethings major wrong here and as citizens we need to fix it I believe it's the 14 line in the constitution If the government and city officias gets to big and goes out of control we as the people are to take it back to our original founding forefathers not 200 wtf are we doing and way over paying so lets stop BS like this cop states are the worse Lets Put Granny in Jail for WHAT my gosh to much Time for the People to take a stand
Hoax...really???...tell that to those parents of the lost children you ignorant @!$%#...
Go back to school and learn english you redneck...lay off the shine and meth!!!
you are the perfect example for birth control..you should have been shot in a napkin!!!
Im not sure Hoax but I have a ton of questions that need to be answered because some things dont add up..
the 14 line in the constitution If the government and city officias gets to big and goes out of control we as the people are to take it back to our original
It's called civil revolt. To me, civil revolt is also allowed by the First Amendment. The armed part of a civil revolt is obviously covered by the second amendment. As a liberal, I am ALL FOR civil revolt.
Poor Grandmom being roughed up by kids and grandkids. Hey Parents--where were you? enjoing a little alone time at the expense of your elderly Mother?
For one if she had that much going on she should have said no to them staying the night but she didnt. She let them stay and she let them stay up that late if they were that big of a problem split them up and put them to bed in different rooms. So no I dont feel sorry for her what she did is crazy what if the kids couldnt get in the house what if the parents went out for the night we could be talking about some dead kids. She needs to be in trouble and I for one would have called the police for her stupidity... If she was to dumb to spit them up or call the parents then she needs to learn a hard lesson.
and parents should be charged. for not teaching their brats to respect other adults and especially the elderly. She told them many times to shut up and it's her house, her rules. to have arrested her is ridiculous. I've seen and reported true abuse and child services have done nothing about it and it goes by child services picking on those who are non-threatening.
Sadly, there are more feral children (as defined by behavior) being raised in the burbs by supposedly loving parents than in the woods by wolves....although elder respect is integral in animal behavior in many instances, unlike in the American parenting model.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the door-to-door trip for these kids may well have been line-of-sight from Grandma's house, and she may have stood in the cold in her bathrobe and made3 sure they made it home safely? From several reports, it was approximately 200 feet, which is not a huge distance by anyone's standards.
For all of you who think your child is perfect and faultless......good for you, because you will be supporting them until the day you die, and by your reasoning the fact that they have no respect or personal responsibility is not going to be their fault when you are dragging your tired 80 year old butts to work every day so that Junior can sit in your basement and play video games because he can't keep a job.
I sincerely hope that this woman sends these parents a bill for the damages to her apartment.
All those bad kids needed was to get their A$$$es beat like in the good ole days Grandmas used to have. That's what the switch and belt was invented for.
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When is society going to get back to controlling kids?
Not until the liberal pansies are removed from positions of authority throughout the US.
I cannot believe the B.S. people have to put up with from cops in this day and age. This was not an arrest situation. Granted the 71 yr. old Grandma used poor judgement. I have lost all respect for politicians and am coming to feel the same way for cops.
The kids should've been spanked then sent home. oh I forgot that's a crime now too. and it makes you wonder...
And Barney had to bring her in to jail?
Unfortunately all too typical of what's happening nowadays. For every action there is an overreaction. Not handled well by all involved. Will cooler heads prevail or will we see grandma's mug shot plastered all over the screen for the next week? John McCain is right. A lot of people really need to get a life.
Leave the woman alone. If the 2 brats get punished by there parents for being hellions that nite. Then slap the woman on the wrists. Otherwise the parents of the 2 boys should have called Grandma first. I think they were pissed off that their nite got interrupted because their babysitter(grandma) couldn't handle them either.
They made it home alright. Quit making something out of nothing. It's just makes light of their piss poor behavior and inability to follow instructions. Makes it alright and Grandma all wrong.
Let's make the kids in charge here again.
This granny made the mistake many others do in this day and that is to tell a child what to do. She should have let them do what they wanted to do. If they wanted to burn the house down, then let them. Parents and grannie have no say in what children do anymore. Its the law. Granny should have known better. She will have to answer to Nancy, joe and barack for such action. Sad but true.
In my day, if I were to have been sent home for bad behavior, my mother would have first rocked my world for embarrassing her and asked questions later. And, she would have called the grandmother to apologize for her son's bad & shameful behavior. Then I may have been grounded from sleepovers for the rest of my life. So, sending them out alone at 4:30 am becomes the sole remaining concern. That is indeed a problem. But, under her circumstances, I think we need to cut her some slack. On the other hand, if I were the gandson's father he and I would be having a very, very long talk about disrespecting his grandmother. I behaved that badly once when I was about the same age. I still vividly remember that night and I'm now 68 years old. When my mother got finished with me I can guarantee you that I learned (the hard way) to never disrespect anyone (especially a grand parent) again. And, the lesson stuck to this day. That's the problem with today's society. Kids are coddled too much. Dr spock was the single most dangerous humanoid that ever stepped foot on this planet. He along with the movie, video game & music industry have trashed our culture.
Virgle - Has to bring politics into this - what a Whank!
Oh well! that's what happens when people send disrespectful children to other people's home overnight. Take control (discipline) of your children no matter what! or else the state will control them for you in prison.
This is a joke. Yes, it was cold out Sunday night, but unless the kids were wearing T-shirts & flip-flops, they should have been fine walking home, maybe it would give them time to think about being disrespectful to Granny. I had a paper route at that age, I went out in all kinds of weather, and never felt like I was "risking injury".
Give the old woman a break, her home should be her castle. Sounds like her grandson's friends are insolent brats, and their parents are tools.
It was only a couple hundred feet so they probably would have been fine even if they were in t-shirts and flip flops.
Doesnt matter how far, doesnt matter why! MY HOUSE MY RULES, LISTEN RESPECT OR LEAVE! Kids didnt have a cell to call mommy and daddy? They must have had a key to get in their home according to the read.
Actually nobody asked why were the children there to begin with? And "the parents" isn't that their father in ICU? and even if a stepfather - this was their mother they were imposing on
The only two people who should be chastised for negligence are these childrens parents - for shame on the police and the parents
Plus why were the children unruly at 4:30 AM? Sounds like bad parenting all around - poor grannie too bad you can't move!
She is the grandmother of the kid that lives with her not all the kids. The kids she sent home were friends of her grandson and not related to her in any way.
yeah==i wish i could type== i do have a lot to say but cant sit here all day typing like this==all of the above that take up for granny against low life cops and brats parents are sssssooooooo r=i=g=h=t= == people that run this society today are just disgusting==
In the end, the elderly seem to be the ones thrown under the bus no matter what the situation is, babysitting and not being able to get the brats to behave in her own house so she sends them home on a dark cold night. What's the matter with kids anymore-bunch of wusses! The elderly and near elderly are being turned down for jobs they need to at least reach the ever-increasing age for receiving full social security benefits. I think there is actually an organized plan behind that. Deny them jobs, make them homeless, let them die from the elements-free up the social security funds they might have had-so Congress can AGAIN embezzle the funds for their own personal use. There is a karma that goes with that plan and follow through. I don't know what the bitch named Karma has planned for those who are trying to kill off the elderly, but there WILL be a consequence. It won't raise the dead, but hopefully, at least one person who used to abuse the elderly or discriminate against them will see the light by some miracle.
No doubt we are a sick society acting so irrational.
This situation should never get to the point where the police has to be called and arrest an old lady.
Sadly, I must say we are becoming a police state and for every minor issue a police and innocent peole get treated like criminals.
Just another sad story of out of control pre-teens thinking their antics are funny and not caring about or regarding the elderly grandmother. I would have wailed their *sses and then sent them out to walk home. No wonder this world is headed to doom, adults have no common sense in raising children. Children raise their parents, pathetic!
wow, for one, The Parents should have talked with the Grandma before calling the police and two I would have grounded the kids for being disrespectful and three I would have apologized to the grandma for the way my child acted, yup that's right apologize.
Well, this is what we've become, what people want: more laws, more arrests. Don't CALL a neighbor, don't talk to each other, and for heaven's sakes don't discipline your bratty kids. No. Call the cops because cops and laws are the answer.