Last week a mother came in the store with a three year old. She came to the toy section and the child was standing on the cart. I told her that the child has to remain seated. She acccused me of saying she is a bad parent. Later her child fell and hit her head. She was not seriously injured (thank God) but the mother threatened to sue. I told her that we can call security and management if she really wants to sue, but she will probably lose because she was told to have her child sit down and she ignored it, and because she ignored the warnings the law would see this as child abuse/endangerment, and there have been cases where parents lost the rights to the child because they ignored warnings. She quickly
A few years ago about a Kmart store. Apparently a associate left a ladder unattended, well apparenlty the mother asked her son to climb the ladder. When he reached the top she pushed him off the ladder. Since the store was dead and she was the only one in the area she thought that she could get away with saying that he fell off the ladder. She was planning on suing Kmart for bucks. Little did she know that she was vidoetaped pushing her son off the ladder. The son later confessed that his mother asked him to climb the ladder. She ended up not only losing the case, but also her child for physical abuse. She was not charged.
Then they went on about another story about how it has become an epidemic of parents putting their children in danger just to sue. They talked about this other case where there was a shampoo spill in the middle of the shampoo aisle at a Wal-mart store. The place was blocked up and another parent ordered her child to run in the spilled shampoo. When the associate said that her child cannot run around because that area is slippery, the parent yelled at the child and said she has no right telling her child what to do, and she told her daughter to do as she says or she will get a smack. The child did as she was told fell and the parent tried to sue.Other customers that were witnesses to this incident testified against her. It turned out that the daughter also was put into care for a short time. This woman was actually charged with child endangerment because she was warned not to let her child run around where the spill was.
There have even been cases where parents pushed kids near spills to hurt them in hopes they will make money.
A few years ago about a Kmart store. Apparently a associate left a ladder unattended, well apparenlty the mother asked her son to climb the ladder. When he reached the top she pushed him off the ladder. Since the store was dead and she was the only one in the area she thought that she could get away with saying that he fell off the ladder. She was planning on suing Kmart for bucks. Little did she know that she was vidoetaped pushing her son off the ladder. The son later confessed that his mother asked him to climb the ladder. She ended up not only losing the case, but also her child for physical abuse. She was not charged.
Then they went on about another story about how it has become an epidemic of parents putting their children in danger just to sue. They talked about this other case where there was a shampoo spill in the middle of the shampoo aisle at a Wal-mart store. The place was blocked up and another parent ordered her child to run in the spilled shampoo. When the associate said that her child cannot run around because that area is slippery, the parent yelled at the child and said she has no right telling her child what to do, and she told her daughter to do as she says or she will get a smack. The child did as she was told fell and the parent tried to sue.Other customers that were witnesses to this incident testified against her. It turned out that the daughter also was put into care for a short time. This woman was actually charged with child endangerment because she was warned not to let her child run around where the spill was.
There have even been cases where parents pushed kids near spills to hurt them in hopes they will make money.
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