Let’s face it — being a parent is hard, and every parent makes mistakes. All it takes is for you to turn your back for one minute for things to go very wrong. When one mom didn’t realize her child had woken up from a nap and wandered outside, a man driving through the neighborhood found the child in the middle of the street; he captured the whole thing on his dashcam.
At first, he was shocked, but that quickly turned to anger. “As my wife stopped the jeep the baby turned and started to wave at us,” he said. “I get out of the jeep and start walking to the baby yelling, ‘WHOSE BABY IS THIS?'” As he yelled, the child’s mother appeared. Fortunately, the child was safe at this point.
“It wasn’t until I get to the baby that these people come running from a backyard,” the man recalls. “What I assume is the mother saying ‘I thought you were sleeping.’ I replied, ‘ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?” I gave her the child and walked away to go call the police.”
The child may have been reunited with the mother, but the man recording the video wasn’t satisfied.
“This baby could have got hit or taken, and they would not have had a clue. I think the only reason why they came from behind the house is that I was yelling,” he explained. “I don’t care what you are doing — KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE — it only takes a second and your kids can be gone or worse DEAD.”
After he calmed down, he was able to explain why he felt so angry at the time.
“The sad fact is that we see this everyday just not with a child this young. When you see a baby in the middle of the road alone, it hits you in the heart. Kids are a special gift from God, and they need to be treated as such,” he said.
“Not to place blame on the parent. I had no choice but to call the police just due to the way people are in today’s world. It was to cover my back. Who’s the say that the parent would call the police and say I tried to kidnap the child? If I were to get the parent in trouble, I would have stayed there and waited for the police.”
Watch the shocking footage in the video below.
