'Baby located after man drove off' - well, not exactly

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-06-17 15:12

Story here. Excerpt:

'Police are considering charging a Markham, Ont., woman with public mischief after she told police her infant son had been abducted in a parking lot by a stranger, when he had just been taken by her husband.

The woman and her husband made a trip to a Costco store near Highway 7 and Woodbine Avenue this morning and got into an argument in the store's parking lot. The man left in the car, with the couple's one-year-old son in the back seat.

The woman called police at 9:40 to report a carjacking and child abduction. She described the abductor as an Asian male in his early 20s with dark, black hair. What she didn't tell them was that he was her husband.'

"...after man drove off," reads the headline. How about "Woman faces charges of filing a false abduction report against her husband, motivated by desire to get back at him after they had a row in the parking lot"

I don't know the circumstances of the fight they had and as a principle I wouldn't condone anyone driving off with the kids after an argument with one's mate like that. Nonetheless, her telling the police that "a man" abducted her child from the parking lot is obviously not accurate enough a depiction to say it was a sufficient representation of the truth to the police, given the accusation.

Note the G&M has disabled the comments for this one, too.

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Perhaps people were saying things that the newspaper did not agree with.

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Submitted by PaulG on Thu, 2009-06-18 01:28

and that's usually all you will hear about it.
shame on you, and please don't do it again.

after all, we're not here to put women in jail,
or actually charge them w/ anything serious.
that's what we have men for.
but, much like c.s., and alimony,
we have to make an example
of a woman occasionally. but even then,
we won't charge women as severly as men.
that's just the way it works.
deal w/ it.

nuttinu

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Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2009-06-18 02:47