The mother thought the girl was hit and that other boys were involved, but there was no evidence of that.
The Tracy Police Department received 190 calls for service on Monday. The following is a sample of those calls:
1:25 a.m.: A man called police to report that “he thinks he hit someone with his car” at 11th Street and MacArthur Drive. The caller said a guy in dark clothes jumped in front of his car. The victim had a broken leg, police said, and the driver was “turned over to the CHP.”
9:25 a.m.: A caller reported graffiti was spray painted on bathroom alls and the sidewalk at Larsen Park, 1401 Central Ave.
10:20 a.m.: A woman walked into the police station at 1000 Civic Center Drive to report her daughter was arrested in Las Vegas and that her son-in-law “is now trying to take the children and hide them from the family.”
11:49 a.m.: A woman on the 1400 block of Michael Drive reported someone “broke into the home and got into the attic and stole all of the heating and air parts.” An officer wrote a report.
12:46 p.m.: A woman on the 300 block of Acacia Street reported the rear license plate was stolen from her car.
2:45 p.m.: A woman on the 200 block of West Clover Road reported a friend of her 13-year-old daughter stole her daughter’s cell phone.
4:56 p.m.: A caller from the Motel 6, 3810 N. Tracy Blvd., reported seeing a 10-year-old girl holding a marijuana pipe “like she was going to smoke it,” and asked an officer to check on the kid.
5:52 p.m.: A caller from Walgreen’s, 1830 W. 11th St., reported three guys were about to fight, and one possibly had a knife. Police detained and talk to one man after the others had taken off.
7:44 p.m.: A caller from Target, 2800 Naglee Road, reported a guy about 18 put a camera in his pants and walked out with it. The caller didn’t stop the suspect because he had “some type of cutting device” on him, possibly a pocket knife. The suspect got in a car and drove off, and was gone when police arrived four minutes later.
9:58 p.m.: A woman on the 400 block of Magnolia Lane reported her 25-year-old daughter said she was going to slit her wrists with a kitchen knife. The woman said her daughter was “very upset about the situation with dad,” who lives with them, and she’d been drinking for two days.
11:47 p.m.: A woman on the 200 block of Village Drive reported she was home with her parents and three kids when she saw someone shine a flashlight through the front window of her home. An officer checked the area and saw nothing suspicious.
This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher’s daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. To anonymously report information about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
sense of concern.
However, teens are going to be experimenting with sex and the question becomes is there more to this, such as one of a singular on-going relationship or, a one of a slightly more permicious attitude?
Moreover it's not solely mutually exclusive:
>Knowing where your kids are all the time makes the valid point of security. Still, there's always a certain level of teen peer pressure and in today's society of both parents needing to work it's impossible to know where teens with a certain level of responsibility are... every second.
>Offering birth control makes good sense, yet it tends to legitimize sex in itself with a permissive attitude rather than one which promotes health awareness and options.
Let's face it teens' are going to have sex.
I think the basic connection between parents and their children has to be honesty.
"How long have you known this guy?"
"Are either of you using some form of protection"?
"Are you fully aware of the consequences, e.g.,who's the baby's daddy?" "And the percentages of contracting some form of STD's and cervical cancer?"
"Are you ready to be a parent?"
Educate your children and create an atmosphere of trust. No matter what it is they do, they are still our kids and we must support them even in poor decision-making. Since there is no book on parenting, we must all learn from our mistakes.
I realize this may be out of my realm of usual cracking wise...just some thoughts to share.
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It's obvious the mother's already being unrealistic. Girls that age get pregnant two ways (no pun intended). Either accidentally or on purpose. Young girls think getting pregnant will #1 get them out of mom & dad's house and #2 Live the rest of their lives romantically entwined with Mr Garage Mechanic. Girl and grease monkey hubby will win the lottery,live in a mansion,buy yachts,sports cars,etc. That ain't how it turns out. But there's girls who want what being sexually promiscuous brings but NOT getting pregnant. If that was my daughter I'd be frank with her. I'd tell her by the third guy you hump you'll have herpes. That's a given. There's drugs for that. What you DON'T want is getting knocked up. You'll become fat and ugly,have stretch marks that look like freeways. Then you'll be stuck with a screaming,peeing,pooing brat. You won't be sexy anymore. No guy's gonna want you. So take birth control pills.
If ya don't know who she's been hangin out with how ya gonna be certain she's takin th pills unless ya stuff em down her throat or spike her food with em?
Then, at 13, I wonder what long term effects she might have later in life since her body had been chemically "tricked" into thankin it's pregnate when it ain't. Ya actually might be doin her more harm than leavin it alone.
But really, if ya don't know what yer 13 year-old daughter is doin an th people she hangs with, even th birth control pills ain't gonna solve yer problem.
I really thank ya need ta come up with a better solution to this problem cause I honestly don't thank it's gonna turn out th way you want it to.