Friday, August 14, 2015

Law in the works against panhandling with children


From NBC:

State officials are taking action on two fronts to stop a group of women from using babies to panhandle throughout Manhattan, following a series of I-Team reports that found they may be involved in a coordinated scheme to exploit their children.

To this point, the NYPD has insisted its hands are tied because panhandling with children on city streets is not illegal.

State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein, a Democrat, has drafted a bill that would dust off some archaic language in New York State Cultural Affairs Law banning begging with babies and move it into the NY State Penal Law so that the NYPD can take action in these cases.

12 comments:

Joe Moretti said...

To this point, the NYPD has insisted its hands are tied because panhandling with children on city streets is not illegal.

AND that is the problem with our elected officials who should be working on laws or changing laws. Panhandling should be illegal, but then if it was it would be a law that would not be enforced like all the other quality of life laws.

Anonymous said...

How about a law against panhandling with bundled campaign funds and shell LLCs?

Anonymous said...

The illegals always do this. They all switch off one single baby so that way three different women will panhandle in shifts so they can make more money. The illegals who do this should be arrested and deported back! I don't give any money to any of them! They already get medicaid and food stamps and wic checks from the baby while their illegal husbands are making money under the table tax free! Then they have the audacity to beg for more money? Yea, Get Real! I don't or will never give these illegals more of my hard earned money! I'll just keep walking by them no matter how many kids they panhandle with!

Anonymous said...

While taking a class in Manhattan last year, I would pass a woman with a baby sitting in the filthy tunnel between 42nd Street/5th Ave. and 42nd Street/6th Ave. I can't imagine the pathogens both on the floor she sat on and those sneezed/coughed/vomited by passing subway patrons. I felt that she should be arrested for child endangerment and that the baby should definitely be placed in foster care. It certainly didn't deserve to be spending most of its day in such an unwholesome environment.

georgetheatheist said...

How 'bout begging with hot pants, fishnet stockings and cleavage?

Slattery Plaza (Intersection of Queens and Woodhaven Boulevards).

Anonymous said...

Roma (aka Gypsies)?

Anonymous said...

The second girl is pretty cute, George.

Anonymous said...

These are Roma (East European Gypsies). They use children for panhandling and theft in Western Europe. They will start with panhandling and will eventually move over to pickpocketing soon. Don't be like the French with their liberal laws. Arrest and deport them or face the crime epidemic that is currently plaguing Western Europe. We already have enough criminals here; we don't need Europe's worst to come here also.

Anonymous said...

Why should pan handling be illegal? As long as they are not bothering people and blocking the walkway.If you don't want to donate just pass them by and if you do give sure maybe you are getting scammed but that's your choice.As long as the children are not being harmed what difference does it make?

Anonymous said...

Because an orderly society does not condone public begging.

Anonymous said...

We're making the moral judgment here that using children as props for begging is harmful to children in itself.

Regular begging is bad enough with the threats, intimidation, and insults. That begging we are forced to tolerate as a exercise of the first amendment by way of the ACLU. So go ahead, beg and leave the kids in the local Pre-K or daycare that as a taxpayer, I am already paying for - as well as your food, housing, and health-care.

And yet they want more.

Anonymous said...

I word a swing shift and would get home a 4am Everyday
I would get off the 14 ave exit in whitestone, one morning a car halfway up the exit with lights flashing a man,women and infint told me the ran out of gas,being a dangerous exit at 4am I gave him $5 Dollars for gas
The next day,same place same time,same family,same BS Story I called the police,never saw them again
To put a small infint in danger is SICK just to grub money,now I never help anyone because they are All Liars