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Good Samaritan Beaten After Attempting to Help Lost Toddler Find Parents
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...m_npd_nn_fb_nn
A good Samaritan was mistaken for a kidnapper — and beaten by the parents — in a Florida park after trying to help a lost toddler, police said. The 2-year-old had become separated from her folks during a softball game on Saturday at Southwest Sports Complex in Lakeland, and was spotted by a man at the park with his friends, according to a police incident report published Sunday. Believing she was lost, the man asked the child where her parents were and walked around the premises with her in hopes she could point them out. But when the child's father was alerted by bystanders that his daughter was being led away by a stranger, the well-intentioned act was mistaken for a kidnapping attempt. "I saw this man with my daughter in his hands walking toward the parking lot. What would you do?" the father told NBC affiliate WFLA in a phone interview. "I wanted to kill him!" Thinking they were stopping a crime, the father and two friends approached the stranger: As his friends took the toddler away, the father punched the good Samaritan "probably five or six times," he told WFLA. "I thought he was trying to take my daughter," the protective dad told the station. In a 911 call released to the media, the mother also admits to hitting the man who was with her daughter, and says she did not immediately believe that the incident was simply a misunderstanding. Lakeland Police, on the other hand, said they were confident that the man was just trying to help the girl. "An independent witness who didn't know the family or anybody said they saw him pointing out different males saying 'is that your father?'" Lakeland Police Sgt. Gary Gross said in an interview with WFLA. Police also said the good Samaritan had no prior criminal history and that they were able to verify that he had been at the park with friends. "It’s understandable how parents can possibly be upset in a situation involving a lost child. However, this incident truly involved a good Samaritan trying to assist a lost child finding their parents," the police report read. Despite the man's innocence, several posts were published on social media defaming his character. Family and friends of the toddler posted the man's name, photo, and place of employment online, calling him a "child predator." No charges have been filed against the parents. When contacted by WFLA, the good Samaritan declined to comment, citing safety concerns and telling reporters he'd left town with his family. "This guy is a father, a local businessman, has two children, was trying to help this child but they turned it completely around," Gross told the station, "And that's not right." Still, when asked whether he believed the man's innocence, the child's father said no. "No, hell no, I don't," he said over the phone, "Not at all." |
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But then you have to start to dig around on what actually happened (I found a few other articles) and as it turns out the guy was drunk with some friends of his at a softball game and lost track of the kid. Additionally, going home and getting on social media and then in every interview afterwards doubling down on his being an asshole is reprehensible. The guy is prototypcial "Florida Man". He's a piece of trailer trash who lost track of his own kid, had a mob of his buddies jump the guy, refuses to accept responsibility for misplacing a 2 yr old and in any interview he can find manages to fit 3 or 4 profanities in there while saying "hell yeah I beat that guy up and I'd do it again....wooooohoooooo! 'Merka!" **** that dude in his face. The cops should've charged him with child endangerment and the guy that got his ass kicked should end up owning his trailer before all is said and done. Unfortunately the samaritan is entirely too good a person and is refusing to do so.
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06-29-2017, 10:52 AM | #33 |
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Had somebody made off with the kid they'd be the first ones saying there were a lot of people around how did nobody not stop it.
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The samaritan was doing a good thing, and the father was a waste of space, but the sad reality is, if I don't know you and your kid, I'm not going anywhere near the situation. I don't need some bogus pedo charge on my record, or the expense of fighting it. Look after your own damn kids, cause I sure as hell won't. Sorry. |
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No... I can understand the initial over-reaction. You see someone walking away with your child, yeah that will illicit the worst reaction unfortunately.
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Shit, didn't our parents do that? Disclaimer: the kid in this story was 2. At that age, they should legitimately be up your ass at all times. There's no excuse for losing track of your 2 year old. |
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The age of the kid and the fact the parents let them get away is the big problem here and dad likely over-reacted in part because he panicked realizing he screwed up.
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She ended up drowning in a neighbors koi pond and he got sued for it. The local authorities pretty much said "yeah, we'd would've ended up prosecuting him for kidnapping...probably a smart move..." He won the case outright. The goddamn mob, man. As has been noted, you cannot simultaneously be an absentee parent AND vigilante warrior. It don't work that way, kids. If you're going to essentially count on the public being your babysitter, you don't get to accuse anyone unfortunate enough to get stuck with the job of malevolent intent. And if you're going to do so, I guess you don't get to be all that surprised when your kid drowns in a landscaping pool.
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Nope. She'd have just walked into a crowd of 15,000 people. Some of them are just fiercely independent at that age. They'll actually grow out of it a bit; at 3 she's not going to get that far away. But at 2 - pft; she's never known anything to go wrong for her so away she went. The kid will wander, but that's why you don't get sauced at a softball game and lose track of it. Ours has been coming to 2-3 games/wk for every year of her existence and we haven't misplaced her yet...
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You would certainly stop the guy, but you wouldn't be stupid enough to beat someone's ass without finding out what's going on. More than likely, the other person is trying to help your dumb ass.
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Yeah, I think that's what most reasonable parent would do... but, if your 2 year old gets out of sight like this one did, you're likely not all that reasonable. Sure, shit happens, but seriously you have to watch your kids. It takes a minor moment of time for shit to go wrong.
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This reminds me - how old was the kid that fell in Harambe's pen?
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