negligence…

On Sunday, April 6, 2008, my oldest – she’s eleven – called me at about 2:45pm. She said that her dad and his new wife had gone to the mall at noon and had locked them out of the house. They had told the girls they would be back at 5:30. Evidently, they gave her a cell phone to use and I guess that was supposed to be their “supervision”. 5 1/2 hours, the girls – 11 and 7 years old – were supposed to just run around and do whatever they wanted. My daughter said that her dad told them, “go have fun!”

What was so amazing is that when my daughter called me, she was about two blocks from my house!! One of the women who work at the clubhouse where Kenny lives was bringing them to ME!

Gee, I guess that cell phone really doesn’t have much of a use, because my children were no longer on the property where Kenny lives and he has no idea!

This is the same problem we had to endure last summer. The girls on their own, in the pool alone, begging people for food, hiding food, being locked out of the house all day…now that it’s getting warm, it’s going to start again.

But this summer, things are going to be different from my end. I’m not going to ask people to document their experiences (like management at Kenny’s complex), I’ll report it all myself.