Parents charged after boy is found trying to sell teddy bear for food

[Jimmyp25]

Ohio parents have been charged with child endangerment after police found their son alone trying to sell his teddy bear for food Sunday.

Police received a call when the seven-year-old was peddling his toy in front of a drug store, and he told police he hadn’t eaten in several days.

Officer Steve Dunham took the child to a nearby Subway to get something to eat, then brought him back to the Franklin Police Department.

After further investigation, police found that the child and his brothers were living in a home full of garbage, cat urine and liquor bottles.



Poor Kid, I hope they can find a family that can actually care for him..



Parents charged after boy found trying to sell teddy bear for food | KXAN.com

[HighFlyingBird]

Sad thing is the protective services are likely going to give their parents many years to pull it together to reunify the family, rendering him and his sibling hard to place because of their age and the multitude of foster placements.

[Dude111]

Very sad.... Poor boy

[NLVgal]

That kid's got some moxie! Good for him for getting himself and his brothers out of that mess.

[Dude111]

Yes but its sad NO ONE HELPED HIM!! (They had to call a cop to help him)

Thats sad right there (But not surprising @ all)

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Yes but its sad NO ONE HELPED HIM!! (They had to call a cop to help him)

Thats sad right there (But not surprising @ all)

Calling a cop was helping him. Do you mean family members, as in, before it got to that point?

[longneckone]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Yes but its sad NO ONE HELPED HIM!! (They had to call a cop to help him)

Thats sad right there (But not surprising @ all)

Good for them. What would you have done?

[DaveinMtAiry]

The oldest is 17. How can this go on this long?

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

The oldest is 17. How can this go on this long?

Alcoholism is a progressive thing. Maybe it's just gotten slowly, but steadily worse?

Good on the little guy for being the frog that jumped OUT of the boiling water.

[OpanaPointer]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

Alcoholism is a progressive thing. Maybe it's just gotten slowly, but steadily worse?

Yep. There's an old saying, "If you hang long enough, you get used to being hung." The creep of the problem was slow enough for it to be "normal" for the kids. When I was in San Diego I was involved (as an observer) in a raid on a mobile home with a heavy fence around it and several dogs in the yard. Inside we found a quantity of meth in an aquarium that housed seven tarantulas. There were four pre-schoolers in the house. They came and went through a hole in the floor. Food was obtained by competing with the dogs. That was 1987 and I can still smell that place.