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In the News - March 4, 2009

Driving and Breast-Feeding Nets Charges
Police in Ohio say a woman has been charged with child endangering after another motorist reported she was both breast-feeding a youngster and talking on a phone while driving.

Former Sun Prairie Day Care Worker Convicted of Child Abuse
A former Sun Prairie day care worker was convicted Tuesday of child abuse for squeezing an 18-month-old girl to the point where she turned blue and stopped breathing. Of the many troubling things about this story, I was particularly taken aback by this, "At a preliminary hearing in July, a former co-worker, Lindsey Anderson, testified that she saw Kladehall swaddle and place weight on the girl on several occasions." And she said nothing, why?

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8 comments:

  1. Jane, please don't forget us old fart, dinosaur nannies that don't use facebook! Don't make any of your features exclusive to that. Thanks!

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  2. The features would never be exclusive, just another channel to generate discussion and ideas for future features.

    :)

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  3. Driving, talking and breast feeding.
    Completely unsafe, but you've got to give her kudos for multitasking!

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  4. Wow, I've breastfed in the car before (baby in carseat, me leaned over her in an extremely interesting position), but I could not even imagine driving while nursing! That's truly horrible! Glad she got caught.

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  7. And it's not Jane Moderating, it's MPP...

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