Troy Crady figures guardian angels must have had something to do with sparing Damon Dyer. The 3-year-old, wearing only a diaper and T-shirt, was found running in the middle of the slow lane of northbound I-465 Saturday morning — and an unaware Crady, speeding by in his 1-ton flatbed, easily could have run into him. If that had happened, the consequences would have been horrific….”It would have been like taking a Chihuahua out with this big truck,” the Indianapolis man said.
Seldom will you find the phrase “DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener” used in concert with “Mother of the Year candidate”. Guess what? You’re not going to find it here, either. Jeebus, when do we begin holding stupid, careless parents responsible for their ignorant, self-absorbed criminal negligence?
Why do we need to have a license to own a gun, go fishing, own a business, and in some places even own a pet…yet anyone with functional plumbing and a willingness to think with the wrong head can make a child? Surely, I’m not the only one who finds this the height of absurdity and unfairness to the children in question?
A woman doesn’t even have the wherewithal to ensure that her children are safe, and yet nothing is done to remove the children from the home? This may seem harsh, and I’m sorry if it does, but we should not have to wait for little Damon Dyer to get flattened by a 18-wheeler travelling at 65 MPH before something is done to protect him? Should we??
Man, I’m constantly amazed at the mental midgets that think they have what it takes to raise a child. They want a baby, but when the novelty wears off they could care less about raising a child. Isn’t it about time we did more proactively to ensure that children aren’t forced to grow up in the moral equivalent of White Trash Heaven? If we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a pointless war in Iraq, can we not somehow manage to protect these children?
The incident led to the arrest of the boy’s mother on two charges of child neglect after Merritt found she wasn’t aware that her son had slipped out of her apartment.
The second charge related to the discovery of a second child eating spaghetti off the floor, police said. Officers said they also found trash in the apartment and feces on the walls.
Oh, those wacky kids…you just never know what they’ll do next….
The truck’s driver had braked, and other cars moved into the left lanes to pass the semi. When Crady flew past, he looked to the right, and “there was this little boy just a-hoofing it down the slow lane barefooted.”
Like several other motorists, Crady stopped and ran toward the child. A woman wrapped him in a sweater because he was shivering, but otherwise “he was just happy-go-lucky,” looking like “the world is a great place,” Crady said.
“He had no clue he came within a hair of losing his life this morning,” said Crady, 41.
“He had somebody looking out for him.”
Hoping to find where the boy lived, Merritt, joined by Child Protective Services workers, went to the nearby Scarborough Lake Apartments. An assistant apartment manager directed them to the Dyer family’s unit.
Their arrival woke Nancy Dyer up.
“Oh, he got out again,” Merritt said she told him after hearing about her son’s escape.
Dyer, who moved here from Florida about six months ago, told police she doesn’t hear the children after she falls asleep on their one bed and had last seen Damon and her daughter, Gabriel, 2, just after midnight. Dyer told police she often used boxes to secure the apartment’s door because Damon is able to unlock it, Merritt said. Whether she did so Friday night was unclear.
I’m sorry, but you’ve been told that your three-year-old was hot-footing it up the slow lane on a nearby interstate…and all you can say is “Oh, he got out again”?? WTF? Can there been evidence any more crystal clear regarding your unfitness as a parent? What has to happen before the state of Indiana WAKES UP AND SMELLS THE CAT LITTER? Does the kid actually have to get run over on the interstate?
If you cannot keep your child from cavorting in traffic, you clearly have no business raising that child. You DO, however, richly deserve your DUMB@$$ AWARD. At least being a DUMB@$$ means never have to play in traffic….
