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An impish 4 year old managed to sneak out of his apartment at 2Am last night because he wanted to find his mommy. Issnando Cocco was found on West 158th Street and Broadway by livery cab drivers who stopped him from heading to the subway. They took him back to their dispatching office and one driver said, "At first I thought it was a dwarf because no kid is supposed to be out at that time by himself." His mother, Isadora Cocco, realized he was missing when she returned home from a 4PM-7AM shift at Montefiore Hospital; her father, who watches him during the night, had fallen asleep after his long day as a doorman. Cocco reported him missing immediately, only for the police to happily tell her Issnando was all right. The Administration for Children's Services won't be pressing charges, as it seems that Issnando was simply clear enough to undo the deadbolt on the apartment's door and he just really wanted to see his mom (plus he was smart enough to dress warmly, the Daily News says he was wearing " two shirts, a sweater, a pair of pants over his pajama bottoms, socks, sneakers and his coat"). Isadora Cocco told the Post, "There has to be a better support system. I work long hours at the hospital, but they only provide day care during business hours. There's no outlet for the people who work overnight." Here, here - the federal, state and local governments don't do much by way of thinking about child care for working families.
And Issnando's grandfather already requested a new lock for the door. Might we suggested these doorknob guards as well?
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Oh, I see. It is the government's fault when a four year old slips out of an apartment in the middle of the night. How perfectly obvious. Maybe having a father in the house might help to prevent such incidents?
trying reading the post again and moving your lips at the same time, nola. there was a father in the house.
Senor Rodrigo - Not the child's father. Having a sleepy grandpa around is nice but not as effective as good old mom and dad. And how the government is supposed to fix this is something Jen and Jake can explain to the rest of us someday.
An adult WAS in the house, and adults who work (even those who don't) tend to sleep at night. As kids should, as well. True, door knob covers could work, but beleive me, with any determined-and dextrous-kid, where there's a will, there's a way. A lot of kids figure out how to make all those safety latches and covers work. Sometimes, despite a parent's or babysitter's best attempts and intentions, things like this happen. You can't be awake, 24/7.
The mother has a point, though. Where I work, there is no on site daycare, and I can't think of any business around Buffalo, except maybe Wegmans, that has onsite day care. And, in my area, all daycare centers close up shop by 11 pm. There's nothing for people who get stuck working midnights, or whose 2nd shift doesn't end until after 11:00 pm. And, none of them open before 6 am, so that sucks for people who have to be at work, at 6 am or earlier. What happens, is people give up good paying jobs, with benefits, to take low paying no benefit jobs at places like Wallymart. Or worse, end up not able to find any job, that pays enough for day care, so they just quit, and end up on welfare. And there's no day cares open on Sundays-most aren't even open around me, on Saturdays, either. And how many of us have to work weekends? Quite a few, I bet.
I'd think, that if you were in the day care business, that there'd be more than enough over night business, to make a profit being open, 24/7.
I will say it's the gov'ts fault for this guy falling asleep on his kid. If they didn't put their hands on so much of our income, maybe not every family would have to be a two/three job family.