Parents beware of their maid

[luvourbb]

All parents out there, please be watchful of their maids. This is a true story that happened in the peak apartment.

There were these two maids with their employers' children (2 kids who were about 3 years old and 1 baby) visiting their freind who works in the peak apartment.

They took a taxi to their friend's house in the peak apartment in the afternoon, bringing their employers' children and shopping bags. When they arrived at the peak, they alighted and they forgot to bring the baby with them. Not until the taxi driver made a turn that the taxi driver realized that there was a baby in his car.

The taxi driver went back to the peak apt where he dropped his passengers and went straight to the lobby of the apt and looked for the concierge. But the concierge said he had never seen that baby before (which is obvious since the baby does not live in that peak apt) and he started calling all the units to check if any misplaced a baby.

 

[somebodyfamous]

what? The baby was just lying in the back seat? Sounds scary if true!

 

[elmo]

I don't have a maid, but really, how often does something like this happen? Although fictional, wasn't it the parents who left their son at home in the movie 'Home Alone'?

 

[Ewee]

GOD! I'll be crazy if I am the parents. Is it in the news?! Where did you heard it? so what happen? is the taxi driver found their parents?

 

[mumsy]

I don't think it's just a maid issue, it could happen to anyone although you wouldn't think anyone could possibly forget a baby. I remember seeing a sad case on Oprah. Normally the mom took care of the baby but due to some unexpected change in their routine, the Dad had to bring his baby along to work. The Dad was very busy and so preoccupied thinking about his morning meeting that he left his sleeping baby in the car for several hours and unfortunately the baby died due to heat exposure. So sad.

 

[rani]

Forgetting groceries in a taxi I understand, but a BABY??!!

 

[HappyV]

How about we have a thread called "All parents please beware of yourselves." No one every posts about the stupid things parents do.

 

[ELT]

ok, forgetting the baby in the car is one thing, but leaving 3 kids in a hotel room in a foreign country on purpose? How about that?

 

[stilli]

Missing children

ELT - I could be wrong but I assume you might be referring to the "Missing Maddie" story. My heart breaks for her parents, her siblings and for dear Maddie. I will be honest and say that on more than one occaisson we did the same thing as Maddie's parents. And in our opinion it was not as black and white as leaving our child alone in a big hotel when we went out for the night. It was when staying in a B&B or bungalow cluster when the restaurant was in eye's view of our room/bungalow. It was in close enough range to use the baby monitor and we would check on our daughter while she slept and we had a quick dinner. And as Maddie's parents stated they were in the same proximity as if they were in a big house eating on the balcony or terrace.
This poor family must be living every parents worst nightmare. And although it is easy to place blame - and everyone is entitled to their opinion - in this situation I do not place blame on the parents - I just ache for them and pray that Maddie is alive and being treated ok. Unfortunately, with every passing day that hope must be hard to hold on to.

 

[annahk]

I know lots of parents who stay in so-called family friendly hotels and use 'baby listening services'. Really no different to what the McCanns did (at least they were checking themselves rather than relying on a telephone to babysit). Cannot imagine that they will ever forgive themselves (or that hotels will still offer these services).

I also know one mother who left her baby behind in the supermarket (luckily on the counter, so at least the check-out clerk looked after him) and did not realise until she got home and unpacked the car in record time. The same woman locked her son into the house, with the house keys and had to get the fire brigade to get him out.

So it's not just DHs...........maybe I need some more responsible friends!