Mad Mom Who Tossed Kids From Car a Global Sensation!

Moms as far afield as Australia are tut-tutting over the Park Avenue lawyer who left her 10-year-old daughter left behind on a White Plains sidewalk as punishment for misbehaving with her 12-year-old sister. Details are still scant on what exactly sent Madlyn Primoff into such a rage, but you can bet she had no idea she'd become, overnight, an instantly-recognizable symbol for bad parenting. The Post has been all over her—nicknaming her the "Mother Chucker" and photographing her outside her office—and warped right-wing columnist Andrea Peyser, mother of a ten-year-old girl herself, naturally admits "to harboring some secret admiration for Madlyn, The Mother Who Means It." Meanwhile, the beleaguered Times blames the usual suspects—the all-consuming Internet and Twitter—for blowing the story out of proportion; "Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome sees the roots of Primoff's new-found notoriety in "the right combination of demography and the omnivorous, viral quality of the online news beast." Whether you're starting to feel sorry for Primoff or still think she's a self-centered, modern-day Medea, one thing's for sure; Scarsdale soccer practice is going to be just a little awkward for her this weekend.

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By John Del Signore in News on April 23, 2009 9:32 AM

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Angelheaded Hipster

blackcotton is RIGHT on the money

except she would still be in jail this morning and the post would be calling for her to go to prison for 4 years

NannyState

All lawyers do this to their kids. That's why they grow up to become the coke-dealing Cancun party circuit trash that they are.

Sulayman

Judge Judy sai recentlt on Larry King live that she did this to her (I think college-aged) son once

blackcotton

If this mother had been a minority, her children would have been taken by ACS and placed in foster care and then she would have had something to bitch about.

StinaLES

Whatever, this lady's behavior deserves to be publicized. Its not about the friggin weather or neighborhood - those circumstances dont always matter when your kid gets nabbed.

What an idiot.

jchez

Exactly. Just imagine if instead of the good Samaritan with the ice cream, it had been a pedophile with bad intentions.

Mike @ The Boise Picayune

A kid had to walk - what - 3 miles? Through what? A minefield? Crack neighborhood? In the freezing cold? Blistering heat? Driving rain? Bleeding and hurt?

When I was 10, we were walking / busing from Flatbush & Nostrand to Gerritsen Beach, Kings Plaza, Borough Hall.

Much ado about nothing; but it makes the truly neglectful parents feel better about themselves...

felixthecat2

Her picture would be great on a Mother's Day Card.

Mr Mel

Or framed in a child's room.

robingee

I think she will be getting sly thumbs-ups from the parents on the soccer field.

Steven

Most stories are blown out of proportion thanks to the Internet and CNN, Fox, MSNBC.

hotstepper

her hair is blown out of proportion.

Mookie Wilson

Elegant Elliot Offen has two children? Who-da thunk it!

MFer

God's master plan: Take Sideshow Bob, mix a little Weird Al, and throw in some boobs.

henry.hamilton

Much ado, over slightly more than nothing. In my day she would have been described as "a little high strung" nothing more. Psychotic? Bish pleeeeez!

purplepenguin74

Too bad. I loved Simply Red back in the day.

jchez

Peyser is warped? Talk about Dowdificating (after the Maureen Dowd technique) someone's words!

Peyser goes on to say how cruel, selfish and downright crazy this woman is. Like the Australian writer, Peyser says that she has had problems with children misbehaving in the car but this woman pushed that anger to a psychotic level.

jpeditor

Hey, Peyser drank the obama kool - aid at the inauguration, but since she didn't swallow greedily / is not a full blown obamunist, she's a "warped right-wing columnist" to Gothamist.

Snoopy

Madoff, Markoff, and now Primoff. Do we see a pattern forming here?

I empathize with the woman. Her only mistake was going to reclaim the "lost" child. Also she must have a very fast runner for a twelve year old child or a very very slow car.

Dirk

"the right combination of demography and the omnivorous, viral quality of the online news beast."

Let's not forget the AWESOME mugshot. Seriously, everything is better with pictures.