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This story is going to upset some of you, at least as much as it upset me.  
 
I was walking my dog this morning - t about 6:30 AM. I could hear a baby screaming, but I couldn't tell where the sound was coming from until I walked past a car. Inside was a baby, wearing nothing but a diaper.  
 
The car was parked in front of a house where the tenants had been loudly partying late into the night (I could hear them from my house, a block away.)  
 
It was cold at 6:30 and I'm sure it was a lot colder last night. It looks like somebody put the baby in the car and left it there all night long - wearing nothing but a diaper.  
 
I ran home and called the cops, who were there in a flash. They took the baby and went into the house where the car was parked in front of.  
 
Before long, two of the partiers came stumbling down the street from where they were sleeping it off. Then a social worker showed up.  
 
If you're not upset yet, here's where it gets really upsetting.....  
 
Fifteen minutes later, the two "partiers" are walking down the street with the baby (still wearing only a diaper) wrapped in a small blanket. The social worker was walking with them.  
 
That's right, the baby was released into the care of the very people who abandoned him/her in the car all night long, wearing nothing but a diaper. I felt sick to my stomach - that poor baby was being handed to the very people who abandoned him/her.  
 
The baby wasn't taken into care. Nobody was charged. Everybody went away, as if nothing happened.  
 
I haven't commented on the ethnicity of the people involved because it is largely irrelevant, except for this point: very young children are repeatedly found dead in certain parts of this province, and we hear that it's the fault of the "system", and not the parents.  
 
Well, I saw a person working in the "system" hand that baby back to the so-called parents this morning, with no assurance whatsoever that what happened to that baby last night hasn't happened before and won't happen again tonight. If (when?) something happens to that child, nobody should be surprised.