Bad Parents Let Kids Wander Woods in Diapers

If you are a Mom that has to work the 3rd shift at a convenience store to support your prescription painkiller habit, don’t wear your I HEART WEED tshirt when the cops ask why your kids have been playing in the creek on a freezing cold morning for an hour in only their diapers.

From NBCNY here:

An East Hampton, Connecticut, woman is facing several charges after her 2- and 3-year-old sons were playing in the woods for hours wearing nothing but diapers on Friday morning.

Julie Root, 27, was arrested shortly after coming home from work. A neighbor called East Hampton police when she had heard the children playing alone by the road in the rain for at least an hour.

When two officers arrived, they found the two small boys walking in the woods on the south side of Flatbrook Road near a stream. The boys were wearing no clothing other than their diapers and they were freezing cold.

An ambulance was called and the boys were taken to Marlborough Clinic for a medical evaluation.

While all of this was taking place, Root walked up to the scene and said she had returned from working third shift at 7:30 a.m. and had possibly dozed off, allowing the boys to slip out of the house.

Root, who is wearing the t-shirt that reads “I Love Weed” in her mug shot, was heavily under the influence of prescription pain medication.

The allegedly bad mother said that the boys’ father, Scott Root, was also home but he had been sleeping during the incident.

Gotta lock them doors, but most importantly, gotta stay off of the pain meds. What 27 year needs pain meds? And why was her loafer husband still sleeping in the morning? Shouldn’t he get up with the kids when Mom comes home from the 3rd shift? And her court date? On 4/20.