A large family traveling bein hazmanim on Monday endured a difficult situation that began when a 1-year-old child was left behind at a bus stop on HaNevi’im Street.
A passerby at the bus stop, at about 1:00pm, was shocked to find a carriage with an infant inside. The pedestrian summoned police and the child was handed over to social workers. Simultaneously, police began efforts to locate the family.
In the meantime, a hysterical mother arrived at the Russian Compound police station looking for her infant daughter. It appears the large chareidi family waited for a bus and a 15-year-old child forgot to put the carriage on the bus. The mother noticed almost immediately, got off the bus, but the carriage was gone. She headed immediately to the police station. She was questioned and released. Her child was returned. Police do not appear interested in filing charges.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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here in the USA they would hang the parents & ask questions later.
#1, as they should.
Actually that sort of thing happens quite frequently, it isn’t newsworthy. Children are easy to misplace (more so when they become toddlers who can misplace themselves) and are almost always reunited immediately with their family.
#3 –
Do you have any kids? It definitely doesn’t sound like it.
#4, can you please explain the problem with putting a 15 year old in charge of a baby. Do you have any kids? Do you ever have a babysitter watch your children? Are you careful to only have a 20 year old watch your children. Or, do you never go away so you do not need a babysitter.
To say that a large family doesn’t mind if one of their children gets lost is ludicrous. I give you my blessing, that in the event something challilah happens to you, you should not have everyone judge you before they know all the facts.
Why is every trying to blame the parents or the 15 year old? What about the egged bus drivers that don’t stop more than 30 seconds at a stop, close doors in the middle of starting to move and shout at everyone to move on back as they break and drive to see who they can get to stumble? It is not like it is in the states where they wait for you to sit down. You must MOVE quickly and if not, you get hit by the doors as they close on you. I don’t blame the 15 year old, the pressure is too great. I blame the driver for not waiting for all to get on board. He surely saw the carriage on the sidewalk through his rear view mirror.
#4 & #5 , it sure sounds like you do not have any kids. Do you have as much of a problem with parents texting while walking and crossing their children as letting their usually responsible 15 year old watch the children?
#3 says “children are easy to misplace” – Glad he’s not my son in law!
#8 –
Huh? I can’t figure out what your talking about.
AND
Yes I have 4 beautiful children and for #3 to say that children are easily to misplace? I mean, HELLO? is #3 for real or is he some bochur in a dorm somewhere deciding that since he’s probably too lazy to take care of children responsibly, so he makes it into a societal thing. “Like, yeah, like ya know, I left my slurpee on top of the car and 1 of my kids I think was still in the restroom or some place.”
It’s this type of thinking that results in kids being left in cars ETC…
So,
I’ll just go with #3 not having any kids.
Just for you information.
Every Frum neighborhood in Israel has at least one lost child Gmach. When someone finds a kid wandering, they bring him to the Gmach. The parents call or go to the gmach, and are reunited with their kids.
I know everyone will draw their own conclusions about the people who set up and use these gmachs going from Mi k’acmha Yisrael, to “criminal negligence”, but I felt it worth the time to include by comment.
Sometimes I wish that only people living in E’Y would comment about these article that YS/YWN insists are news. Anyone who has ever boarded a bus with ten or twelve kids (as I have) will see this in a different light than someone with two or four kids.
Frum Israel is a different world than ours in many ways. I lived there for 14 years, so I appreciate the differences.
Boruch Hashem the kid was safely returned to the parents, so I’ll add a cute relevant story which I witnessed at a large supermarket.
A child was wandering around the store calling “mommy mommy!” A store worker stopped the child and said “Are you lost?” “no” answered the child, “I’m right here- My Mommy’s lost!!!” 🙂
To all you guys bickering if you have kids or not and how beutifull they are: Just imagine if Batya Paroh’s daughter would have incriminated Moshe’s family who knows if we would of had the story turn out like that.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe….
#7, you’re a bit off. The article says nothing about the driver or the bus, yet you are ready to hang him for something he had nothing to do with. This concerns the driver not at all.
These lost children gmachs in EY are a mixed blessing. We were at a Hachnosas Sfer Torah at a shul and our daughter separated from us for a few minutes. Someone saw her looking for her parents and immediately whisked her off to the gmach. In the meantime we were looking for her. Had they waited a few minutes we would’ve found her.
If this mother indeed got off the next stop then w/in a couple of minutes she would’ve found her baby- had the police not been so quick to hand the child over to social workers.
that was a good move not to press charges, for those who dont know, haneviim is next to mea shearim, mistama she was from mea shearim pressining charges would have resulted in major riots!
boruch hashem the city is starting to see things in the right perspective
I was once on line in a supermarket with my toddler. He left my side and ran away and then started crying “Where did Mommy go? Where did m
Mommy go?”
To 17: I know that first hand as well. Once my small child was not lost and was sitting on a step waiting for me to pick something up from a dira in a building, and when I came a couple minutes later he was gone. We did not know about these gmachs yet, and had no idea what happened. At the end we got him back, but it was no fun. But I think having the Gmachs is better than not having them
my friend was once putting her carriage onto an egged bus and the bus started moving with her carriage on and her still off! a lot of the drivers are very uncaring. (the truth is the buses there are a lot more hectic than it is here where a few old ladies and some school kids get on the bus…)