{"id":806,"date":"2008-06-07T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=806"},"modified":"2008-06-07T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T16:39:53","slug":"takin-care-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/07\/takin-care-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Takin&#8217; Care of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the first two pages of today&#8217;s Nashua [NH] Telegraph:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>A firefighter in Concord was commended after saving the lives of two children in a trailer home. He explained that he drove by and saw smoke pouring out of an attached shed, with the father of the children attempting to extinguish it with a garden hose. The firefighter ran into the burning house and got the kids&#8211;who were in their cribs&#8211;out.<\/li>\n    <li>A 20-year-old man was arrested in Derry for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old. Strangely, he was arrested in the library. He was reading, of all things, a book called <em>Encyclopedia of Rape<\/em>. Just&#8230; wow, dude, you have problems.<\/li>\n    <li>A man in Brentwood was arrested for beating his 6-month-old son, apparently breaking &#8220;more than two dozen bones&#8221; on the boy. At his sentencing, his wife spoke saying that he had never hurt the boy.<\/li>\n    <li>On the front page, a babysitter was arrested with 26 counts each of kidnapping and child endangerment, and felony theft. Before you think she had a warehouse of babies she&#8217;d kidnapped, she was actually <em>outsourcing<\/em> her babysitting. She&#8217;d agree to babysit the kid, and then find other babysitters on Craigslist to provide the care. Unfortunately for her, &#8220;personal contracts&#8221; cannot be assigned\/transferred, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that child care, unlike lawn mowing, counts as a personal contract. However, I&#8217;d contest that kidnapping is a reach, and felony theft is utterly wrong: the services were received, just provided by someone else. It might be a tort, but I&#8217;m not sure that subcontracting can be considered theft, even if subcontracting wasn&#8217;t permissible. Child endangerment, though, is probably a pretty fitting charge. The parents have a brief statement encouraging other parents to do random, unannounced visits of their child to make sure that they&#8217;re actually there. I suppose, in this case, it&#8217;d have been appropriate, but it seems somewhat preposterous that one would have to do that, especially since most people hire babysitters because they&#8217;re unable to be there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, is there any crime that <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> committed on Craigslist? Browse around enough and you&#8217;ll find flagrant prostitution and drug sales. (You&#8217;ll also periodically see people arrested for this stuff in the newspaper&#8230; I&#8217;d love to work in a police department&#8217;s &#8220;Craiglist Division,&#8221; which might just be a full-time job.) Apparently you now have babysitting-outsourcers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first two pages of today&#8217;s Nashua [NH] Telegraph: A firefighter in Concord was commended after saving the lives of two children in a trailer home. He explained that he drove by and saw smoke pouring out of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/07\/takin-care-of-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}