It never ceases to amaze me.....

So, I was chatting with another mall employee today, and she had quite the story for me. On Saturday, a 7 year old boy was left alone in the food court. After quite some time, security was notified, and the mother was eventually found. The boy had been telling the food court workers that this is common, that his mom would bring him to the mall, and leave him to entertain himself while she goes shopping, and that she had told him she would pick him back up at 2:30, but it was now after 3:30, and he said she is usually late in picking him back up!

This parent obviously does not know the story of Adam Walsh, the kid who was kidnapped from a Florida mall, and later found beheaded. this kid is 7!!!!! I couldn't even walk 2 feet out of my house by myself at that age! It sickens me that people are so quick to report someone for spanking their kid, crying abuse, but yet no one, not one single person, not even mall security, called child services on this woman. what a sad, scary, world we live in.

I work in a crazy mall. This is the 3rd time a child has gotten lost or abandoned in the mall (that I know of) in the 6 months I have lived out here in North Carolina. I've worked in malls for 18 years and never had that many stories like that to tell!