Angry mom: "Get out!"

[Immortalfire]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/sha..._Fed_Up_Mom.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday.

Madlyn Primoff, 45, a partner in a Manhattan law firm, pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge of endangering a child. A temporary order of protection was issued, barring her from contact with the children, who were physically unharmed.

Primoff's lawyer, Vincent Briccetti, would not comment Tuesday on details of the case. But he said, "Madlyn is a great mother connected with a great family, and she is grateful for the outpouring of support from friends and family."

There wasn't much support from strangers, however. Mothers interviewed near the scene said they couldn't imagine doing what Primoff did, though some understood the urge.

Iris Gorodess, 49, of Mahopac, who has four children ranging from 10 to 19 years old, said she sympathized with Primoff's actions, right up to the point where she pulled away.

"I used to pull over and make the kids change seats. Also, I make sure the kids have their iPods and their games. And I have a minivan, so they're not up my neck all the time.

"But I can't see pulling away. That has to be too scary for the children."

White Plains police said Primoff ordered the arguing girls out of the car Sunday evening as they were driving home. She left them at Post Road and South Broadway, an area of shops and offices 3 miles from their home, then drove off, the police report said.

The report does not say whether the girls had cell phones.

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.

He directed her to White Plains police headquarters, where she was arrested.

Dr. Richard Gersh, director of psychiatric services at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in Manhattan, said Primoff's behavior was not appropriate.

"It is a traumatic situation for a child to be abandoned by a parent like that. You can imagine what emotional issues might arise," he said.

 

[Timstuff]

Great, now parents can't use this to threaten their kids anymore, because the little whippersnappers are going to wave this in their faces if they do.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

Wow. The mom should be thankful that they're not on the way to becoming another news headline. Nancy Grace would've plastered her face on CNN for months and compared her to Kaylee's mom and every other "horrible" individual in the past century.

Abandonment? I'm not sure about that. 1/2 day alone: normal. 18 years? Not so much.

 

[Ghostvirus]

One of the kids were 12.

I would have been pumped as a skunk if my mom had left me alone on the street at 12. I would have met her back home later on, & just chilled in the city for a while.

I swear this Generation should be called genpuss.

 

[WolfCypher]

That was irresponsible of the mother.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Wow, I guess she takes things literally, she ain't messing.

I wouldn't want to be around when she says, "If you don't... I'm going to kill you."

 

[Timstuff]

One time, my mom left my oldest brother at church because he wouldn't stop playing basketball, and me and my brothers had been waiting over an hour to go home because we were all hungry. She threatened that we were going home in 5 minutes, and he didn't believe her, so we left. She came back about an hour later and picked him up. And this was before cellphones!

I can certainly see that leaving 2 kids alone in New York City is a lot different from leaving one at a church in rural Connecticut, but still, this story makes me laugh.

 

[terry78]

Eh, good for her...it'll grow 'em up.

The fact that she's a haughty Manhattan lawyer should tell you right there she didn't really give a ****.

 

[K.B.]

I'm in support of this mother and her actions..the kicker in this article however is this line right here :

The report does not say whether the girls had cell phones.

Well god-f**king -forbid!

This really is "generation pu**y".

 

[MaskedManJRK]

ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district

Can any of the New Yorkers here on the Hype tell me where White Plains is? I mean, NYC probably has muggers and stuff all over, but I imagine that if it was in a more dangerous neighborhood, then the agrument of endangerment would be fairly valid.