What Would You Do? Woman Pulls Kids Into Car During Incident

OAK CREEK, WI -- According to Oak Creek police reports, the mother of two children called police on the morning of Jan. 12 over an incident involving her children and a neighbor.

According to reports, the children threw pine cones at a vehicle. The owner got out of the vehicle, grabbed the two girls' arms and forced them into the car. The owner of the vehicle then drove the girls back to their grandparent's house where they were turned over without further incident.

Reports stated that the mother of the two girls later called police, saying that the woman who forced her children into the car was a stranger, and that she was concerned that this happened.

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According to police reports, police told the mother that the woman should not have grabbed her daughters, nor should she have forced them to get into her car.

Reports stated that the woman did not commit a crime under "Good Samaritan" law because she was preventing unsupervised children from falling into icy water, playing in traffic among other dangers.

The mother said she simply wanted to document the incident in the event the woman sues her for damage to her vehicle.

The Good Samaritan Law

Wisconsin's Good Samaritan Law is an actual state statute that exempts a person from legal consequences so long as the person doing the action satisfies three main criteria: emergency care must be rendered at the scene of the emergency; the care rendered must be emergency care and any emergency care must be rendered in good faith.

"Any person who renders emergency care at the scene of any emergency or accident in good faith shall be immune from civil liability for his or her acts or omissions in rendering such emergency care. This immunity does not extend when employees trained in health care or health care professionals render emergency care for compensation and within the scope of their usual and customary employment or practice at a hospital or other institution equipped with hospital facilities, at the scene of any emergency or accident, en route to a hospital or other institution equipped with hospital facilities or at a physician's office."

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