Babysitter Behaving Badly: 2-Year-Old in Man’s Care Was Legally Drunk
I don’t know if you can classify this as parents behaving badly; it all depends on who gets the blame for letting Juan Reyes babysit two toddlers while their mom gave birth at a nearby hospital. From what the article says, both Reyes and the family lived in the same house, so I can’t imagine mom and dad didn’t know something about the man’s character. Whoever’s to blame, it’s obvious now that Reyes should never have been left alone with these children. Deputies investigating a family court case peered in through the windows of the home and found the babysitter passed out drunk in a chair. They entered the home to find that one of the toddlers was also three sheets to the wind, with a blood alcohol content over 0.09 - in other words, legally drunk. The kid is now in the hospital, the other child is in state custody, and mom is probably kicking herself repeatedly for trusting this guy to safeguard her children.
Personally, I pity all the people who share the name Juan Reyes, as their efforts to ego-search will now be frustrated by Juan Reyes, the Drunk-Ass Babysitter.
(Thanks to Jennifer, Rebeka and my lovely wife Kim for all sending this link. Um…should I be worried that, when people think of bad parenting, they think of me? Especially when one of those people is my own spouse?)
Tags: alcohol, alcohol+poisoning, children, kids, new+york, parents, patchogue, toddlers
1 opinion for Babysitter Behaving Badly: 2-Year-Old in Man’s Care Was Legally Drunk
Hula Doula
Dec 29, 2005 at 2:07 pm
I can’t even comment to this. It infuriates me beyond belief