Publication Date: 03/22/07
At about 2:50 a.m. on March 14, 2007 a motorist in Muskogee, Ok spotted a three-year-old boy wandering barefoot on Honor Heights Drive. Teresa Hughes who spotted the boy, said at first she thought it was an animal in the road and then realized to her shock it was a child. Hughes waited with the child while police sought the boy's home.
At about 1:30 p.m. on March 14, 2007 a motorist in Warner, OK spotted a two-year-old boy wandering near or on Oklahoma 2, a five-lane highway that crosses through Warner. Thankfully the motorist picked the child up and took him to safety.
Okay, pretty simple isn't it?
In both of these instances little children were out wandering about unsupervised and 'in traffic', one in the middle of the night, the other in the middle of the day.
In both of these instances adults that were supposed to be watching out for these children failed miserably, putting the children at grave risk.
A reasonable person might expect that the full force of the law would be brought to bear on those responsible, and rightfully so. Unfortunately what seems reasonable and right are not always what happens. Especially in Oklahoma.
In both of these instances of obvious child neglect the Muskogee County District Attorney's office initially indicated charges were expected against the responsible parties and once again rightfully so. Then things took a very strange turn toward double standards.
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