Toddlers found on freeway, Dad arrested.

[SoUncool]

http://www.kpho.com/news/16585299/detail.html

Father Arrested After Kids Found On Freeway

UPDATED: 8:58 am MST June 12, 2008

PHOENIX -- A man whose children were found walking alone on a freeway on-ramp during morning rush hour traffic was arrested Thursday.

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Police said a morning commuter found the siblings, ages 1 and 3, on the southbound Interstate 17 on-ramp at Glendale Avenue and stayed with them until officers arrived.

Police located the children's home -- a unit in a nearby apartment complex -- and said they found two more children alone inside.

Detective Ruben Gonzales said the conditions inside the apartment were shocking.

"It looks like a half a loaf of bread that was inside the garbage -- that was pulled out, opened. You can see bread strewn about the apartment as if they were trying to eat that," Gonzales told KTAR-FM.

All of the children are between 1 and 4 years old.

Neighbors told police they had not seen the children's parents since 8 p.m. Wednesday night.

When the children's father returned to the apartment shortly after 8 a.m., police arrested him on suspicion of child neglect.

The whereabouts of the children’s mother remain unknown.

The children will be turned over to Child Protective Services.

[Jaded]

Wow...those kids were blessed with some great parents.
Shitheads...

[nurseronda]

Oh, this story reminds me of my childhood. I was two and my mom told me that she couldn't take me in town to get a hotdog so being the stubborn child I was at that time; I took off walking to the hotdog shop without her. In my mind, she just didn’t want to go. I walked the two miles to the hotdog shop and was given a hotdog and a small drink. The lady that owned it was my great aunt. She kept looking for my mom, but of course, she never came, I ate my hotdog and drank the soda she gave me and while she was busy, I took off walking all by myself again. I did make it home ok, but I sure didn’t like the punishment that was given to me.

When my brother started walking, I would grab his hand and take him with me, miles away from home. I was a very curious kid and loved going exploring and when we got back, I knew I would get punished, but somehow the adventure of the taking a long walk from home was what thrilled me at that young age. Oh, and a really high fence did not keep me at home either, I would climb over and help my brother over the fence too.

[Mom of 4]

A 1 year old and a 3 year old on the freeway??? OMG they are very lucky they were not killed. Fucking idiot parents!:frusty:

[funnymommy]

Oh, this story reminds me of my childhood. I was two and my mom told me that she couldn't take me in town to get a hotdog so being the stubborn child I was at that time; I took off walking to the hotdog shop without her. In my mind, she just didn’t want to go. I walked the two miles to the hotdog shop and was given a hotdog and a small drink. The lady that owned it was my great aunt. She kept looking for my mom, but of course, she never came, I ate my hotdog and drank the soda she gave me and while she was busy, I took off walking all by myself again. I did make it home ok, but I sure didn’t like the punishment that was given to me.

When my brother started walking, I would grab his hand and take him with me, miles away from home. I was a very curious kid and loved going exploring and when we got back, I knew I would get punished, but somehow the adventure of the taking a long walk from home was what thrilled me at that young age. Oh, and a really high fence did not keep me at home either, I would climb over and help my brother over the fence too.

I bet your mom said " I hope you have one just like you!" I know my mom did! :tongue2:

[MISSanthropic]

I was two .

two?! I find that incredible you were able to walk there, order food and make it home. Just seems like such a young age for that, but I'm glad you were safe!

[michelle]

Oh, this story reminds me of my childhood. I was two and my mom told me that she couldn't take me in town to get a hotdog so being the stubborn child I was at that time; I took off walking to the hotdog shop without her. In my mind, she just didn’t want to go. I walked the two miles to the hotdog shop and was given a hotdog and a small drink. The lady that owned it was my great aunt. She kept looking for my mom, but of course, she never came, I ate my hotdog and drank the soda she gave me and while she was busy, I took off walking all by myself again. I did make it home ok, but I sure didn’t like the punishment that was given to me.

When my brother started walking, I would grab his hand and take him with me, miles away from home. I was a very curious kid and loved going exploring and when we got back, I knew I would get punished, but somehow the adventure of the taking a long walk from home was what thrilled me at that young age. Oh, and a really high fence did not keep me at home either, I would climb over and help my brother over the fence too.

NR, you little shit *smile* I bet your mom was pulling her hair out.

I bet your mom said " I hope you have one just like you!" I know my mom did! :tongue2:

Well did you?

[nurseronda]

I bet your mom said " I hope you have one just like you!" I know my mom did! :tongue2:
Yes, she did and I did get one just like me.

two?! I find that incredible you were able to walk there, order food and make it home. Just seems like such a young age for that, but I'm glad you were safe!
Yes, I was two and did ask for a hotdog, my great aunt gave me the soda. Each time my mom would walk us into town, she would let me ask for the hotdog.

NR, you little shit *smile* I bet your mom was pulling her hair out.
Yes, my mom was, she had a very hard time trying to keep an eye out for me and my brother. She had four kids by the time she turned 18. She started at 14. I can remember that she had told me once that I was the worst kid on the planet. I just loved exploring so much. We lived in the country and once we got lost all day and night in the forest behind my family's home; we did find our way out the next afternoon. It was shortly after this that my dad put barbed wire on the top of the fence to keep us in the yard, that didn't work either. We would climb the tree next to the fence to get over the barbed wire. My mother was still amazed at the things that I could remember at such a young age.

[ashdavus]

ittle kids are amazing! The dad, however, he's just an asshole!

[Jaded]

The father who left his children alone for more than nine hours in his unlocked Phoenix apartment – allowing two of them to leave and wander near a freeway – told authorities that he had gone out drinking the night before, upset that his wife would not leave a bar with him.

Carlton Don Anderson, 28, left his four children alone in the apartment with no food on Wednesday evening at about 8 p.m. and did not return until Thursday at 8 a.m., according to a court document released Friday. Anderson had wanted to pick up his wife from a bar, but when she refused to leave with him, he met up with a friend to drink alcohol.

During that time, Anderson's 3-year-old twins left the apartment and wandered near the onramp to Interstate 17 near Glendale Avenue, where a passerby who almost drove into the children stopped to call authorities.

The other two children remained at the apartment, which had broken glass from beer bottles covering the kitchen floor and trash piled up in the corner.

Police arrested Anderson on arrival, and he admitted to leaving the children alone in the past, including a previous incident where the children had wandered along Glendale Avenue and had to be returned by a neighbor who recognized them.

According to the court document, Anderson's children, ages 4, 3, 3 and 1, were very dirty and their diapers were soiled. There were additional dirty diapers in the sink, and neither of the two children in the apartment had shoes on.

The two children found on the road had been alone for nine-and-a-half hours before being discovered, and court documents state they could have been killed or seriously injured when they ran in front of a car on the access road to the freeway.

Anderson was arrested on two counts of child abuse. The mother of the children had not yet been located and Anderson was still in jail as of Friday morning, Phoenix Det. Reuben Gonzales said.


http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/13/20080613abrk-childrenabandoned.html

[~Absynthe~]

My mom used to tell us kids to go out and play in traffic on the bypass, she said that we could chase semi's..it was always a joke though!! Hell we lived eight miles from the bypass..out in the boonies and she also knew that we wouldn't walk that far to do it!!

This guy is so lucky that these kids weren't killed!! Dumbass, it's pretty said when alcohol is more important than your kids!

[Mom of 4]

So it looks like mom is really concerned about her 4 kids too eh? Fucking idiots should never have access to them again.:mad2:

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The kids were just going out to look for help and did it in the most blatant way possible. That's probably how little ones turn in their parents for neglect.

Kids were lucky. Parents should be tied up and tossed in the bus lane.