..."working on her parenting skills!!!"... I'd be censored for what I'm really thinking.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/212/nation/Woman_gets_three_months_in_jai:.shtml

Woman gets three months in jail for leaving children in car trunk

By Brian Bergstein, Associated Press, 7/31/2001 19:00

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) A woman who repeatedly left her young children in the trunk of her car while she was at work and once turned up the radio to drown out one boy's cries was sentenced to three months in jail and five months of home detention Tuesday.

A tearful Rosemarie Radovan, 31, also was sentenced to five years of probation. She pleaded no contest in March to two counts of felony child endangerment.

''I know what I did was wrong,'' Radovan said, breaking down in tears. ''I'm sorry about that. I love my children so much.''

The single mother said she has been in counseling and working on her parenting skills in hopes of someday being reunited with her sons, who have been living with her parents.

Radovan was arrested in November after a co-worker told police he heard her 5-year-old son crying while he and Radovan drove to get ice cream. Radovan turned up the car's radio and kept driving a fact that Judge Robert Ambrose said he found ''particularly offensive.''

Investigators determined that Radovan had left the boy and her other son, then 7, in the trunk as many as 10 times in a year while she worked at an electronics-manufacturing company in Santa Clara.

On some occasions, the car's back seat was lowered so the boys could crawl from the trunk into the passenger section, prosecutor Dan Nishigaya said. The children were never physically harmed, he said.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Answers

Now I've heard everything.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

That woman doesn't need counseling, she needs a shrink. She should be committed until George Bush Sr. gets re-elected.

I hope she never gets her kids back.

Loony tunes!

Horse-whipping would be too easy for her. I'll think of something.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

A date with that Kennedy-Smith character?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Police: Mom Locked Children and Dog Inside Storage Unit With No Running Water, Air Conditioning

The Associated Press Published: Aug 1, 2001

CASSELBERRY, Fla. (AP) - A family lived two months in a 12-by-20-foot storage unit without running water or air-conditioning and the mother locked the children inside while she worked, police said. Adrianne Tijuana Johnson, 29, was charged with two counts of child abuse and one count of animal cruelty after her 8-year-old son, 12- year-old daughter and the family dog were found Wednesday.

"I had no other choice than to leave my children by themselves," Johnson said while being led away.

Police said they didn't know how often or for how long the children were locked inside the unit.

"It amazes me those kids were able to survive in there," Police Chief Jim Ruf said.

The manager of the self-storage lot found the children after hearing the dog bark.

Johnson told police she was a nurse at an Orlando hospital, but the hospital said she does not work there and the state showed no professional license issued under her name.

Temperatures inside would have approached 100 degrees. Police found half-empty juice bottles for the children and water in a bowl for the dog.

The $137-a-month unit contained appliances, furniture and clothes, along with a propane stove and a lighter, to which the children had access.

"If there was a fire, the kids could not have gotten out," police Inspector Scott Pleasants said.

AP-ES-08-01-01 2302EDT

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

I know this sounds horrible, but you know, if the gov would provide free, safe, daycare for these low income people, shit like this would happen a lot less.... and there probably would be a lot fewer screwed up kids, growing up to be screwed up adults; in this country anyway.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

Totally agree with you Carl! Too many kids getting the short end of the straw.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

Carl, the woman didn't work at the hospital. Maybe she worked on the street. No daycare program will accept streetwalking as a legitimate employment reason to leave your kids in free daycare. Sorry. In a weird way, she was trying to keep them safe, but I don't want the kids going back there.

So, how many of us are going to sign up to be foster parents?

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

It isn't the government's responsibility to take care of people's children. That way lies control of all that we hold as freedoms.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001

I agree with you Barefoot -- but where will these children go? Back to the same conditions? No? Then where?

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001