Police: Mom arrested after chase with two kids in car and open ...

[gtVoyageur]

This lady needs help and drying out. Why even comment if you folks out there do nothing but scathe and squawk about this poor soul who is need of help. The children are the losers in this incident.

Intelligence and compassion, from what most commenters are espousing, are in short supply here. What if it was you being the subject of a story such as this?

[nick]

awww comon feel sorry for her isnt that the way we are supose to feel must have had a bad child hood Just kidding take the kids away and throw the book at her

[Norm W Worm]

Hey - that's no diaper bag, that's Denny Hecker!

[highland guy]

does she hang out with Dubay?

<lower case d>

[Theresa]

GLOCK wrote:

This is Minnesota. MN. Nice WILL rule. I am sure she will get a STERN warning!!!!(:(:(:

Don't forget she will get to keep her kids.

[Rockin John Pt 2]

Where is poppa during all this?

[Steve]

Cops Wife wrote:

I find it interesting that this HORRIFIC story only has 13 comments most of them a bit off the wall... however if a cop used a tazor on some one or got in a bar fight off duty the entire Pioneer Press comment column would be in a complete uproar! Weird! Where are all the concerned people now ?! This lady should NEVER be allowed to have her kids back and they should go to the thousands of parents in MN who can't have kids and would love to adopt some !

WHAT EVER>>>Big deal, cops plops, cops are just power hungry cry babies. If you are married to one, you know all about it. Don't stick up for cops and don't try to hijack this thread with your issues. Cops that steal, rape,grope, feel up, lie, cheat, kill, maim, injure, and take advantage of the badge are scum. They are the lowest of the losers. They are criminals with a badge and they feel that they are above the law. Do not try to lump these asholes in with the regular day to day joe cop that is just trying to make an easy buck.

This lady was DWI, that's all. No one was hurt. It is just a chance to see all of the crazy self righteous holier than thou types come out of the woodwork and rant. The reporter that wrote this up and the staff that gave it the OK knew it would ruffle some feathers and that my dear thing is why it is in the news. Go back to your bag of chips and your scanner.

[Clueless]

I work in an adult foster home for mentally
unbalanced people with addictions and this
scenario happens a lot more than you would
think, it just never makes the news. Instead
of jail they get voluntary committment, but
will get released to begin the cycle all over
again. It is a never ending battle and the
kids end up suffering the most. To all of you
who think that "treatment" is automatically
better than jail time..........
not always.

And RJP2, sadly, poppa is usually long gone.

[picklesnorkie]

Clueless is correct...alot of times the cycle of addiction and abuse will repeat itself over and over again...I work at a drug rehab center and alot of them came from several generations of all types of abuse...mostly drug abuse. It's a hard cycle to break...sad but true...:(((

[Strib DeathWatch]

we see and hear you wrote:

this happens a lot more than what is reported with you people and the children are returned after a slap on the wrist

Why don't you and/or "you people" worry more about the carnage in your own self-destroyed neighborhoods instead of whining about what may or may not happen to this stupid chick? GFY whiner, you don't have the moral high ground on anyone and you and/or "you people" aren't victims. GFY.

[Meow]

GLOCK wrote:

This is Minnesota. MN. Nice WILL rule. I am sure she will get a STERN warning!!!!(:(:(:

She won't get a stern warning until her 10th offense. Until then she will receive no more than a mild warning.

[john doe]

but the Police will let thing like this go on for how long now, just another white collar crime,just move along
http://www.bbb.org/minnesota/business-reviews...

[Patriot]

Jill wrote:

This is sad. Hopefully, she can go to rehab.

,and be sterilized.

[Mrs Yard]

I KNOW this GIRL (not woman) personally. 8 years ago I worked with her and I can tell you She was an alcoholic then, and obviously is now. She will NOT go to rehab, never will. She is a selfish immature headcase who should never ever have had children of her own. In this case, she purposely and willfully endangered the lives of a 2 and 4 year old. As far as I can see it, the creature should be charged with attempted manslaughter....or at very least reckless endangerment and locked up for a LONG time.

[Mrs Yard]

Steve wrote:

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WHAT EVER>>>Big deal, cops plops, cops are just power hungry cry babies. If you are married to one, you know all about it. Don't stick up for cops and don't try to hijack this thread with your issues. Cops that steal, rape,grope, feel up, lie, cheat, kill, maim, injure, and take advantage of the badge are scum. They are the lowest of the losers. They are criminals with a badge and they feel that they are above the law. Do not try to lump these asholes in with the regular day to day joe cop that is just trying to make an easy buck.
This lady was DWI, that's all. No one was hurt. It is just a chance to see all of the crazy self righteous holier than thou types come out of the woodwork and rant. The reporter that wrote this up and the staff that gave it the OK knew it would ruffle some feathers and that my dear thing is why it is in the news. Go back to your bag of chips and your scanner.

NO, that's NOT all. She was DWI at TWICE legal limit WITH A 2 AND 4 YEAR OLD IN THE CAR, and had her booze and weed neatly tucked away in her CHILDS DIAPER BAG, caused numerous accidents along the way before she was finally stopped (hello..? insurance claims=$$ out of EVERYONES pocket)
Yes, people drive drunk all the time... but most aren't brain-dead enough to risk their kids lives doing it. This is not about the fact that she was driving drunk...this is about her complete and total disregard for the lives of her own kids. THAT'S what makes people sick about her. Unfortunately, this selfish bitch will cry in court and get a minor fine or maybe nothing at all and will be out next weekend doing it again until she finally does kill the kids. But hey... who are we as a society to "self-righteously" judge this poor unfortunate single mother after all, didn't some loser earlier say "she's hot"??? She should be let off just for that right?

[Mrs Yard]

Patriot wrote:

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Correct. However you CAN sterilize them. Seriously.

YES!and it should be Public and painful.

[yep]

Mrs Yard wrote:

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NO, that's NOT all. She was DWI at TWICE legal limit WITH A 2 AND 4 YEAR OLD IN THE CAR, and had her booze and weed neatly tucked away in her CHILDS DIAPER BAG, caused numerous accidents along the way before she was finally stopped (hello..? insurance claims=$$ out of EVERYONES pocket)
Yes, people drive drunk all the time... but most aren't brain-dead enough to risk their kids lives doing it. This is not about the fact that she was driving drunk...this is about her complete and total disregard for the lives of her own kids. THAT'S what makes people sick about her. Unfortunately, this selfish **** will cry in court and get a minor fine or maybe nothing at all and will be out next weekend doing it again until she finally does kill the kids. But hey... who are we as a society to "self-righteously" judge this poor unfortunate single mother after all, didn't some loser earlier say "she's hot"??? She should be let off just for that right?

Where does it say she caused accidents along the way??

[yep]

Found it says here that she

Say, of Monticello, wouldn't stop and drove for another four and a half miles, "nearly causing numerous accidents," the release said

Just thought I would correct the point listed above

[Mrs Yard]

yep wrote:

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Where does it say she caused accidents along the way??

KSTP.com

[Mrs Yard]

yep wrote:

Found it says here that she
Say, of Monticello, wouldn't stop and drove for another four and a half miles, "nearly causing numerous accidents," the release said
Just thought I would correct the point listed above

There were sadly...however typically... TWO different versions of the same story. The "full story" linked to this page quotes "nearly causing" numerous accidents.
kstp reported in their "full story" precisely FOUR accidents involving NO injury by other drivers, the drivers who called police to report her erratic driving in the first place.
Guess it really doesnt matter either way, that part of it is fairly irrelevant (at least to me)