“Lisa Snyder, a stay-at-home mom in rural Michigan, says she was doing her neighbors a favor by watching their kids for about 20 to 30 minutes each morning before the school bus arrived.
Lisa Snyder, left, watches kids play at their bus stop, which is also her driveway, with other…
(Katy Batdorff/The Grand Rapids Press/AP Photo)
One by one each morning a different group of kids would arrive at her Middleville, Mich., house to wait with her 7-year-old daughter for the bus’ arrival. Snyder, 35, couldn’t have envisioned that her act of charity could possibly land her in jail.”
ABC news 1/10/09.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-mom-shun-daughters-schoolmates/story?id=8712305
Where are we to punish people watching kids?Where is human consideration and gregariousness?Is US heading totalitarian way by not allowing people to express their feelings under the guise of “protecting individual privacy’
If watching kids is a crime, then none should depose as a witness for any criminal offence.Any thoughts?