Mom Arrested After Baby Coos in Library

Mom Arrested After Baby Coos in Library
http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/117362/mom_arrested_after_baby_coos

Posted by April Peveteaux on March 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM

It's starting to feel like people just really hate babies in this country. Whether it's feeding them in public or strolling them down the sidewalk, people seem to get aggro when in the presence of tiny, helpless infants. Makes you wonder what kind of issues people have when they take out their aggression on the smallest in our society, no?

So here we go again with a story of a mother who was trying to do a job search in the library, and was kicked out, and then arrested. All because her baby dared to let out a little baby talk. That's right, baby talk. Not baby scream, not baby cry. Baby talk.

Serita Foster and her 14-month-old baby were in the library in Decatur, Georgia, so she could use the Internet to search for a job. Her baby made a noise that Foster described as a "coo" and the security guard came over to tell her that her son needed to quiet down or leave the library. Foster gave her baby a bottle, and no further noises came out of the little dude.

However, the security guard came back saying the branch manager wanted her to leave anyway, just in case the baby made any more noise. Seriously. Preemptive banishing in the public library. Foster held her ground, which resulted in a trespassing arrest.

So security guards can bully a mom with a happy baby, but it's still legal to look at porn on the library computers -- when children are around. What's going on in this country that moms are constantly under attack? How is Foster supposed to find a job when the library won't even let her come in if she has her baby with her? As Foster so eloquently said, if her baby had been crying, she would have immediately left the premises. But he wasn't crying, and she needed to use the computer.

Foster actually has a court date coming up, as she was charged with obstruction. What a fantastic use of our tax dollars. If you're in the Decatur area, you should be pissed. Hell, if you're a mother, you should be pissed. How many gum-snapping, coughing, farting, or otherwise noisy people do you think sit in the Decatur library every day -- without being asked to leave? It's mom discrimination, pure and simple.

Do you think Serita Foster should have been kicked out, then arrested?



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