Backseat bickering bugs just about every mother, but when a Manhattan lawyer had enough of her quarreling daughters, she kicked them out of the car and drove off. Madlyn Primoff, 45, dropped her tweens in a shopping district three miles from their home on Sunday night and has since pleaded not guilty to child endangerment.
Police would not say if Primoff ever returned to look for the girls, but they said, without explaining how, that the 12-year-old eventually caught up with the mother. The 10-year-old was found by a "Good Samaritan" on the street, upset and emotional about losing her mother, police said.
The girl gave police her mother's name and their address in well-to-do Scarsdale, and they asked Scarsdale police to check Primoff's $2 million house. Shortly afterward, Primoff called Scarsdale police from home to say the 10-year-old was missing, said Scarsdale Detective Lt. Bryant Clark.
Do you sympathize with Primoff for trying to end the car quarrel or do you believe she should be charged?
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this was an episode of desperate housewives
mom took it too far for real life. i'm sure she regrets it now. hopefully this all get resolved and the family can resolve their differences more effectively.
1Tweens I'm assuming means 11 and 12 year olds. AND she dropped them off 3 miles from home, an easily walkable distance. AND they had each other. Of course she shouldn't be charged. That's stupid.
2wow...a 10year old?she went a little too far.she's the parent she should be able to make them be quiet instead of using that harsh method to punish them
3i've never used that one...only "don't make me stop this car".
. i can totally understand how
she could of had enough, but to drive off..thats a little to much
4Yes, she went too far.
5What she did is wrong to put her daughters life's in danger. They could have gotten horrific crimes done to them. Every parent has felt frustration but you can't parent anyway you choose. She should have stopped the car to handle it then or waited until they got home.
6I can understand her frustration, but when you are that frustrated....you need to take a breath. She should have stopped the car and gotten out on her own to just decompress. Maybe walk around the outside of the car a few times, calm down herself and then get back in the car to deal with the situation. I bet her just parking the car and getting out by herself would have shocked her kids into shutting up!
What she did was so dangerous for those girls, what if something awful had happened to them? She is so lucky that they are both safe!
I am not sure about her being arrested and charged, I think she more likely needs some parenting classes and stress management classes!
7I agree with MartiniLush.
8it was 3 miles thats nothing and these kids were clearly old enough to walk together. I also bet that next time she tells her kids to stop something they'll listen.
9everyone is saying little kids...they are 10 an d12 ,definately old enough to walk home, I mean if they were preschoolers, I can understand the outrage but these are older children that should have some life skills. I guess I am a horrible mother because I let my kids walk to the park by themselves....child molesters have always been around..it is the media that has everyone freaked out. And all you people who spank and wack your kids around....there are so many better ways and it does leave emotional scars...it may be affective at the moment..but it emotionaly pushes your kids away. I do not hit my kids and they are respectful good kids.. they aren't out of control.. I take privelages away which they hate...and they don't have to feel humiliated or sore.
10Three miles is a LONG walk. I don't believe the police would've arrested her if it was a nice leisurely neighborhood walk, they must've been in some kind of danger. Actually, if you look at the area where she dropped them off at Post Road and South Broadway in Scarsdale, New York, in the middle of a downtown type area. You can look it up on Google street view. That doesn't look like a good situation for ANY 12 or 10 year old. Especially if they are fighting and likely to leave each other alone. I have an almost ten year old and no way would I let him walk in ANY part of my town (and I live in family friendly Austin) for three miles with a twelve year old or by himself!! Obviously she wasn't concerned about where they might end up when she did it if she called shortly after to say the child was missing. This woman needs some anger management classes.
11*it is* in the middle of a downtown area, rather.
12I want more info.. Did she drive around the block and pick up the one daughter she could find? Did the 12yr old run to catch her as she speed away? Did she go home only after looking for her 10yr old? Or did she simply drive off?
13I think anyone with kids has wanted to kick them out of the car, and back when we were kids it was probably safe to do. It's a shame that times have changed.
People have mentioned that "I bet they wont act up in the car anymore" I bet they will. Now it'll be about how mommy can't punish them; she has no authority because they can get her into trouble.
In any case I think she needs some parenting classes maybe, but jail...no.
Way too risky. I can see if she dropped them off at the end of her street or something. Or even if she pulled over and said "GET OUT" then circled around the parking lot, watching them the whole time. My daughter is 10...trust me some 10 year olds are NOT mature. Mine isn't. Even some 12 year olds are not mature ! No matter the maturity level, it's still too risky. Also, wake up...there are LOTS more child molesters and sickos in the world today. It's a sign of the times.
14This whole thing is ridiculous. She did what she did as a parent. No one should be pointing the finger at her. Are we all suppose to just let KIDS run all over us and get the best of everyone. That's why crime rates with Juveniles is so high. The law makes it so that PARENTS are only here to feed and clothe the kids but as far as punishment goes, it is really limited. What happened to the old days when parents raised there children the RIGHT WAY. Kids were so much more respectful to everyone including law enforcement. Now Kids Use LAW ENFORCEMENT as a way to punish Parents and that is NOT OK!
Get real AMERICA!
I am not a parent but I completeley understand the frustrations of parents. I see kids at grocery stores just yelling for no apparent reason other than they couldn't get a candy bar or a kid that will just sit on the floor and not move until they got what they wanted. I say a Good old fashion Butt spanking is what they ALL deserve. They need to know who is the Parent and who is the CHILD!
15I don't think she did anything wrong. I've had to walk places when I was a kid, and today all our kids are lazy and fat. Exercise will do them some good.
"something may have happened to them"......yeah, that can be said of any situation they may find themselves in. Mom might wreck the car, someone could slip in the bathtub, might be playing baseball and get hit in the head, etc. Kids today are coddled way too much in my opinion.
16For those who says they would never well think about it they are not babies and the are not grown. but they want to act like it then yes i would have done the same. my mother did it to me and my brothers and we did learn. you take the right to discipline so now kids do what they want. so who says how to raise your child the one who gave birth or the one who thinks the world revolves around them and their rules. i do not believe in abuse but i do believe that the child does need discipline....
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