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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Now, child endangerment, that is a pretty serious charge. |
0:05.5 | But is there any way you find any sympathy for 24-year-old Chris Lewis who got arrested |
0:11.8 | after leaving his three young children alone at a McDonald's in Augusta while |
0:19.2 | attending a job interview. |
0:22.5 | He went in and left his kids ages 1, 6, and 10, put the 10 year old in charge and said, |
0:28.2 | I've got to get a job, I've got to get this interview done. |
0:31.9 | This is the only thing I have. |
0:33.0 | Here's a playground. |
0:33.9 | You guys just be cool. |
0:34.9 | Don't bring any attention to you. |
0:36.7 | But, of course, somebody noticed |
0:38.1 | that there were three kids of those ages kind of hanging out by themselves and did not see an adult. |
0:42.4 | Authorities were called. And when Chris came back, he was charged with deprivation of a minor. |
0:50.1 | So, yeah, look, there are a lot of these child endangerment, child abandonment charges that happen. |
0:56.9 | I don't really have a lot of sympathy when it's a parent going into a casino or into the bar, and they leave the car running, and they're like, well, I just had to get my drink on. |
1:05.2 | But this is a problem that I wonder if a lot of parents, and possibly single parents might have an issue with is you're trying |
1:11.6 | to get gainful employment and it a lot of times requires an in-person interview yet you still |
1:15.8 | have three kids that you're responsible for and maybe you can't find anybody you don't have family |
1:20.8 | or whatever or even the money that's why you need a job for a babysitter yeah if i was the cops |
1:25.6 | i would have shown up and handled it a little different. |
1:29.6 | I just, I don't know if I would have arrested the guy. Because now what? Now what happens |
1:34.1 | to these kids? These kids are going to go into the system. I wonder if he would have gone into |
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