I totally sympathize with this lady...first off as a parent...if my kid acted up at someone's house and was continuing to do so al night after being told to cut it out-my kid is getting my 7 1/2 up his/her rear end...that's just disrespectful and also a bad reflection on yourself and your own family values...i never had this issue come up with any parents when my kids stayed at someone else's home...by the same token i myself have had the displeasure of having some kids over the years not many, but a few that me or my husband had to get up and give the warning...if i had to get up more than three times, that was the end of that kid staying at my house ever again, i work to hard in this life to have some kid ruining my weekend...and my youngest is now at the age of 16 where the sleepovers have come to an end for the most part...but yes, she shouldn't have thrown them out, as they were young and obviously could have created a dangerous situation...but i don't think she should have been jailed under the circumstances and the parents of these brats instead of being all pissed off at this lady maybe should take a look in their own backyard, and should be embarrassed that people around this country that are making our comments now know you raised little aholes.

This is ridiculous. My twin boys are 9 and they walk to school every day. It's about a mile and they leave at 7 (just 2.5 hours after she kicked those kids out). So, apparently my ex-wife and I should go to jail for allowing this. Is this what the world has come to? We all have to lock ourselves and our children in our home, every activity needs to be organized with the community or school? Grow up people! There is something we are failing to teach our kids, individual accountability! If they were being rowdy at 4:30 in the morning she was right to be upset. If it was just a couple blocks, then she was right to throw them out. If it was a long ways, then she should've called their parents, but failing to do so isn't a criminal act, it's a mistake. This story is a good example of everything that is wrong with our society.

Damn COWBOY!

Just pull your Glock out and shoot Granny!

Talk about overzealous!

Ya'sure, she shouldn't of done what she did.

However, Parents, the School and the media has created a culture that should not be tolerated!

RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!

RESPECT YOURSELF AND TO THOSE AROUND YOU!

DON'T LIKE IT, I HOPE THE NEXT ELDER BENDS YOU OVER THERE KNEE AND GIVE YOU THE WHAT FOR YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT ALONG TIME AGO!!!!

Kids today are spoiled brats! They should have done what she said the first time and been quieter. They already think they are the center of the universe. And the parents should not have had them there with an elderly person in the first place. That in itself is endangering the child, if they want to get picky. If she told them to be quiet, then they should've been quiet. They got home and whined to mommy and daddy. This is ridiculous. I am totally on the grandma's side. Life is hard enough and then you have to deal with someone else's brats.

Sounds like grandmother abuse.

The kids were plenty bad enough, and evidently they inherited their behavior from their parents.

This is what happens when you don't take responsibility for ensuring your kids are raised with manners. And big deal about the walk home. What happened to the days, like when my parents were kids and had to walk to school in freezing weather, that it was totally acceptable and now it is a crime. Too much liberal B.S. These are the same people who refuse to protect unborn babies, to the tune of 1.2 million, fail to protect their kids by posting "gun free zone signs" but get bent out of shape for this! I got an idea! How about making being a Liberal, Marxist, Socialist a crime! That would do more to protect children than any anti gun law!

so the roudy fkn punks had to walk home...age 10 and 11 What is the big fkn deal??? Sounds like the parents are the ones that need to be in cuffs!!!!!!!

Its probable that the police found them walking on the street, followed up with the parents, to find out it was the grandma who left them out and went over and arrested her. Thats the only probable explanation of how the police got involved. Has to be. This is all too crazy. Why would somebody call the police on their parent. Yes I would be hopping mad, and never again would I let my kid stay at my parents house, but calling police and getting her in a lockup? thats too much.

And for Officer Cowboy what part of respect and commonsense you just don't understand!

O'HELL, and they talk about the Old West being so gun & fighting happy!

I remember having a sleepover for all the neices and nephews one night...5 kids in all at my parent's home. The next morning my 70 something mother said: "Don't ever do that again, my blood pressure is sky high. Too much activity and excitement for me at my age." This from a woman who had raised 5 kids and loved children, and these kids were not raising hell at 4 in the morning because they were asleep before midnight.

If grandma had stroked out from all the stress and died, would she have then been charged posthumously with child endangerment because she had left the poorly behaved children unattended? Grandma and the children's parents are not to blame. The children should have learned both at home and at school that they needed to be respectful and listen. The children need to be remanded to juvenile court for elder abuse and taught what they did not learn before they get older and worse.

Sure..... The kids in question didn't know how to use a phone to call mommy or daddy to come and get them? It is never the fault of the ones acting like idiots at someone elses home.

As a parent myself, I would not like a situation where my kid has to walk home unattended at 4am. That being said, there was a reason this happened, even if it is less than palatable.

I'm surprised that they arrested the old woman. What would happen if these kids slipped out of their house and she caught them in her house? Would she be allowed to run them off?

I want to know why the parents of these kids were so oblivious to the issues going on in that house. No decent person would send their kids to someone's house when their spouse was clinging to life in the hospital. At any time she can get the call - "Come down as quick as possible; there's not much time left". You cannot bring non-family members into most intensive care wards, so she would have had to leave them unattended at the house or in the waiting room of the hospital.

The other parents were extremely selfish in not hosting the sleepover at their house, knowing that there was an ongoing medical emergency. Their kids were not taught to respect others, and the rest of the details of the story probably tells about several warnings she gave them before becoming frustrated and exploding. Kicking someone out is not usually the first stage; usually several warnings happen before it comes to that.

So, we have two kids who made it home on a chilly night, an elderly woman in county jail, her husband in intensive care in the hospital, the grandchild probably in the care of CPS (because the boy evidently has no one to go to other than his grandparents, and now one is in the hospital and one is in jail), and the parents of the two kids are not held responsible in any way for leaving their wild kids in the care of an emotionally-compromised senior citizen.

Justice...

She was aa Grandmother and evidently didn't think about how her kid was in the passed. Yes I believe the paents should have been called and the parents handled their child.

CPS should be called and the kid removed from the irresponsible Granny's home.

If I read this article correctly not only the child who lives with the woman is her grandchild, but the other two are, as well. If that is the case, then the parents are well aware that the woman has a lot on her plate, but they allowed the kids to stay over there, anyway. (They should have been hosting the kid that Granny is raising to give the poor woman a break!) I know that Granny had the parents' phone number and should not have hesitated to use it! I have 5 grands ranging in age from 2-16. If any of them were that badly behaved, they know I would have been on the horn calling mom/dad and that it would not have made for happy parents to be awakened at 4:00AM. Had I done this same thing, my kids would have set ME straight and the KIDS straight, there would be no more overnighters, and it would have remained a family matter, not a matter for the police. I think some family counseling or parenting classes are in order for this whole bunch!

obviously the stupid parent and stupid cops made a big deal out of nothing. So they had to walk a few minutes in the cold of night to get home. I used to walk miles to school every morning by myself.

Just what this poor woman needed as if having her husband in the hospital in intensive care wasn't enough to have to deal with ignorant parents of disobedient kids and being arrested

Talk about selective editing. I like how this story leaves out some very important detail from the original story (found here: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Grandmother-Arrested-After-Ending-Rowdy-Sleepover-189762851.html):

"Aiello's sister said there were thumping and bumping noises and metal statues came off the wall."

"Police said they one the children’s parents, who lives in the same condo complex, contacted authorities on Sunday morning when they awoke to find the kids unexpectedly home."

They walked home IN THE SAME COMPLEX and were obnoxious enough to be knocking crap off the wall. I'd be mortified if my kids went to stay with their grandparents and acted like that.

I don't buy for a moment this granny was unaware of the time...c'mon. That's totally bs. Now, if it were daylight, perhaps but not so haphazardly....do we know how far their homes were? Could have been around the block.

Either way, sending a 10 & 11 year old home w/o parents knowledge, you're effing dead wrong. No matter how you slice it. I'd be very upset, too.

The kids were lucky that grandma wasn't a psycho woman we hear about so often these days or they would have been found in sound proof cages about a week from now. I'd say the parents won't be dropping their little angels off at this grandmas house anymore. Good, they don't deserve to have any relief from the kids after this disgusting display of mean spiritedness toward grandma. They had to walk less than 2 blocks? Come on, these parents were just pissed they were awaken that early. Mark my words, these parents will be in the news in the future saying how little johnny is such an angel and they don't understand why he shot that school up.

I can certainly understand why she was stressed out. But I can't believe she had the nerve to think the parents should have called her before calling the police! It was her responsibility to call them - before she kicked their kids out. She's definitely not in any condition at this time to supervise any children. Social services needs to step in and give her some help until she is capable.

Ridiculous!!! The thought of grown men in police uniforms arresting a 71 year old grandmother, putting her in the back of a police car, taking her to a barred facility, fingerprinting her, taking a mug shot of her and locking her in a cell will really make you question the sanity of these police officers. If anyone deserves jail it's those bratty kids that showed no respect and their parents who don't teach them how to behave. That's probably why the parents wanted them out of their own place---so they could have some peace and quiet! Is this story for real? I'd love to know far they had to walk---I'll bet it wasn't far!

If this had happened to my son, I would have been livid but if arrived home safe I never would have called the police. I would have called grandma, asked what happened and after telling her she should have called me I would have then had a talk with my son about how to behave in others homes.

First of all I want to know how far away the kids lived from the grandmother? One or two houses down, or 2 blocks away, or several miles. The grandmother was stupid and careless and should have called the kids parents, but I would never have called the police on her. I would have worked it out myself. She was totally overwhelmed by her situation with her husband being out of the picture with a stroke. I would never involve the police in any family situation unless it was absolutely necessary. There is never any understanding or empathy when it comes to the law...you did it and that's that, and it doesn't matter what you were going through. I think her adult child, the children's parents, should have considered this, but instead they called the police in their anger. Nobody wins here!!! Sorry...just my opinion! I think people call the police way too much in our society!!!

Yo Monkey, you pretty well nailed it.

What the g'mother did was not right, but I can understand it. I would not have thrown kids out at that hour. She just snapped. Kids are defiant and listen to no one. They are imprevious to adults yelling at them. So that's when action kicks in. It was just bad judgement, but the kids were faced with freezing temps, walking home alone....I just see both sides of this.