Treffly Coyne And Killing Kids In Cars
“I AM talking tens of thousands of people who leave their kids in the car for any period of time all around America,” says Janette Fennell, founder and “president” of Kansas-based Kids and Cars. “People don’t appreciate the dangers of leaving a child alone in the car.”
And we must. So must American mother Treffly Coyne who is due in court after a community service officer spotted her sleeping 2-year-old daughter alone in the family vehicle. Mrs Coyne had taken her two older daughters to donate money Salvation Army collection box.
So what are the dangers, Janette? A look her website tells us some of the dangers children are exposed to:
• Being inadvertently backed over in a driveway or parking lot
• Being left in a vehicle where the temperatures can reach deadly levels in minutes
• Knocking the vehicle into gear and setting the vehicle into motion
• Strangulation by a power window, sunroof or power accessory
• Being taken by a stranger in the course of a car theft
• Hopping into a car trunk during an innocent game of hide-and-seek
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Finding matches that set the car aflame
• Leaving the vehicle alone to go to the bathroom, or to go looking for you
• Being kidnapped from the vehicle
“KIDS AND CARS’ mission is to assure no child dies or is injured in a non-traffic, motor vehicle related event.”
The ways to achieve this are twofold:
1. Do not allow children into cars
2. Kill all children.
Reading Janette’s site we acknowledge that Plan 1 is a pipe dream and Plan 2 is well advanced.
Back to Mrs Coyne who could, as the Mail says, be sentenced to a year in jail and fined £1,250.
Says she: “It’s sleeting out, it’s not pleasant, I don’t want to disturb her, wake her up. It was safer to leave her in the safety and warmth of an alarmed car than take her.”
Not a chance.
As the Mail notes, “statistics show thousands of children are injured and dozens die every year after being left unattended near or inside vehicles.”
Mrs Coyne might just as well have left a gun in her glove compartment, stuck a hose in the exhaust pipe while the kids fight in the back seats and try mum’s patience..
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March 16th, 2008 at 6:52 am
> “The “power hungry cop” was tring to protect this child. It make me angry that our courts want punish these people.”
Bret:
These people weren’t in need of punishment. Yes, no doubt the “cop” was trying to do his or her job. However, a slight bit of informal recognizance by the “cop” should have determined that there was nothing amiss. Had the woman, and her other children entered the store leaving the 2 year old behind then that is a different story, but she simply stopped so that her older children could make their offering to the salvation army all the while outside of the premises and within sight of her well secured and well loved babe.
We are becoming too alarmist, and our police are as a result using too much of a no tolerance “hair trigger” no doubt being told to act that way. Let’s loosen up a bit and let them use their god given intelligence. Our society is is becoming a political, no-tolerance nightmare.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
bret-
I wonder if, by your logic, you think that an eye needs to be kept on children 100% of the time? Many things can happen in four minutes anywhere. In a car, in the store, in your house. When you put your child to sleep at night time in their room and then you go to sleep in your room, someone can come in to rob the house and put your child in danger (Yes, even if the house is locked!). And the child’s room is out of your sight, and you’re most definitely gone from it for more than four minutes in the course of a night. So I suppose that we should all have our children sleeping in the same room with us as well. Probably handcuffed to us, just in case.
This type of paranoia is exactly what puts us in danger of total police state lock down.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:30 am
The child was in a warm vehicle asleep on a winter day, locked, alarmed in full view of the public and her mother a few meters away. The child was in the safest place she could be!!
The authorities were WAY too intolerate. This is another of so many situations where zero tolerance stupidity does away with common sense.
The interior is not going to get hot in winter, its not going to get too cold for a bundled child for hours, its not going to roll down a hill (stupid comment not unlike the others, just more so), and its not going to get stolen; locked, alarmed and right in the middle of a lot of people.
Let the child sleep!
Morons!
… this is the comment of a grandfather of one and father of many.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
You’ve got to be kidding?
What kind of a person would leave a small child locked in a car. Who cares how hot or cold it is. It doesn’t matter if it was 4 mins or 4 days. What if the car was stolen in that 4 mins or rolled down a hill. I don’t leave my dog in a car for four mins regardless of the temp.
The “power hungry cop” was tring to protect this child. It make me angry that our courts want punish these people.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Convenience??? Yes, it was probally more ‘convenient’ for her to leave a sleeping 2 year old in the car, while it was sleeting and nasty out, to be within the cars sight for all of 4 minutes, not to mention locking the doors.
This whole situation is absurd…she should have NEVER been arrested. If she had gone in and went shopping, the of course. but the damage it caused her other 2 children, to see a power hungry cop arreesting their mother, for what? i think if anything a bit of a warning would have been sufficiant.
“Mrs Coyne might just as well have left a gun in her glove compartment, stuck a hose in the exhaust pipe while the kids fight in the back seats and try mum’s patience..”
this is absolutely the most ludicris thing i have ever read….she was actually protecting her child from a nasty winter night, knowing full well it would be mere minutes, and she would be able to see the car the whole time…that comment is a bit harsh.
June, you pointed out that it is 15 degrees warmer in the car, so at 30 degrees that night, it is safe to say the car may have reached all of 45 degrees…making it impossible for any harm to come to this child…not to mention the 20 minutes…according to police after watching a video, she was gone all of 4 minutes.
this child was never in danger.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Gavin,
and Ms Coyne’s thoughts were on the temp, which at sub zero weren’t the most favourable either, but more on her convenience?
March 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
June,
It was around 30 degrees F out (around -1 celsius) when Ms. Coyne left her daughter in the car. Nobody was going to overheat in that car. And nobody was going to freeze either.
- Gavin
dr:21.35
March 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Leaving anything living in a car is wrong.
Dogs left in cars quickly become distressed, dehydrated and then dead. Any dogshow where anyone leaves anything living in a closed car is arrested now.
The internal temperature in a car is approx 15 degs higher than outside, and it takes approx 20 mins to die
March 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
You are NUTS!!!! This lady did NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong.
dr:19.59
March 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
According to CNN news this morning the cops will drop charges at a court hearing today. It may have already happened.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
This article is absurd given the situation. A simple warning would have sufficed. I don’t know Treffly Coyne, but she seems like a very good mother who is trying to teach her kids charity and empathy. What her kids sadly learned that day is neither of those traits are worth the consequences. Her kids got a terrible message from law enforcement that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. This police officer abused her power and in my opinion should be fired or reprimanded harshly for escalating this to the level that it has gone to in our court system. It has not helped our society or the safety those kids feel toward police officers.
A similar abuse of power happened to me. Some frinds and I wnet out for dinner and a 7:00 movie one night. When we got to the movie there were no seats in an R-rated movie, but there were kids under 17 all over the place and a mother had a four year old in a sci-fi horror movie. I went to complain to the manager and the next thing I know a police officer is asking me for my id. I had left my purse in the theatre with my husband so I told him I didnt have it. Next thing I know, he smelled the one glass of wine I had and arrested me for public intoxication. I am being thrown against the wall arrested for complaining to the movie manager. That same night I found out that same manager’s son was involved in a group fight outside the theatre. What happened to him and his friends-nothing. Being a professional business woman with no more than a speeding ticket on my record…I had to pay thousands of dollars to get my record expunged because all the company’s I would work for do background checks. I couldn’t afford to have something like this on my record…even if it was a misdemeanor. I got to spend the night on a concrete floor with prostitutes and drug addicts for me complaining to a movie manager.
As for your solutions…what a joke. Kill all children. That’s the most ridiculous solution and not funny even in an satirical way.
dr:19.56