Reply #183: feeding breakfast to my landlady's daughter [View All]

[Lisa]

It was a late start to my day (I'm on the west coast) so I didn't know what had happened until a co-worker called me very early. "Turn on the TV." "Which channel?" "ANY channel."

The morning was already strange, because I had come up to get the newspaper and found the little girl (7 years old at the time) wandering around the house in her PJs. Her mom was in bed with a fever, and her dad had already left for work ... she claimed that she had just woken up and hadn't had any breakfast yet, so I fixed her some oatmeal. I was upset about what I'd seen on the TV (I turned it off because I didn't want her to see) -- but also nagging at my mind was how odd it was, that the kid was unsupervised. I checked in on my landlady, to see if she was okay but also to tell her about the attacks, and I could tell something was wrong because she just grunted and rolled over in bed.