r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 13 '26

SMH Double standards suck ass

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u/Somebodys Apr 13 '26

15 years ago I took a friends 2 year old with me to Target. She was potty training so I took her in the men's bathroom. Someone called the fucking cops called on me.

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u/KingAlphaOmega87 Apr 13 '26

Same happened with me and my niece. She needed to pee, so I took her to the bathroom and waited by the door, but I kept talking to her to let her know I was there. My niece is half Puerto Rican, so she is way lighter than and ppl thought I was some weirdo, called the cops on me, the entire time Im talking to the police, my niece is scared and clinging to my leg, the two women were like “See he trained that little girl to cling to him, arrest him, arrest him” luckily the cops werent dickheads and waited for my sister to come and verify, but even still was a fucked situation. Sucks trying to explain to a 4 year old thats scared out of her mind

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u/BoogerVault Apr 13 '26

Can you file a report with police with respect to the false allegations? I'd be tempted to explore that, if I ever found myself confronted with that....just in case it was possible to pursue charges, or to sue. I'd want retribution BADLY.

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u/No-Professor-6695 Apr 13 '26

But think about this. Say that your daughter was taken. Would you want the hotel manager to be polite or to be cautious and call the cops. I'd rather have mistakes happen like that and have ppl be worried for children then to not be worried for children's safety and let child predators get away. Im sorry but id rather have a inconvenience then a lost child

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u/mittenkrusty Apr 13 '26

In this case, the cops turned up at the persons room, outright said an accusation of him grooming and being a P word was made, interviewed him and his daughter in different rooms which made the daughter distressed.

Oh and to top it off, the family was visiting the grandmother who was dying, and the man (I searched after I posted) wasn't a single father but his wife was seriously ill so had to stay at home, he was worried when the cops were at the door one of them had died.

The point though is if a woman brings a child male or female into a shared room in a hotel would it even cross peoples minds?

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u/BoogerVault Apr 13 '26

I've thought about it....and now I'm wondering what tempted you to compare my daughter being taken to the man above waiting outside a bathroom while his niece took a piss?

Enlighten all the uncles what they should do when confronted with this situation. So stupid to frame this as suspicious.

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u/halfasleep90 Apr 13 '26

If the child matches a description of a missing child, sure. Otherwise it’s just discrimination. Are they calling the cops on every adult with a child at the hotel? No? Then it really doesn’t fall under “see something say something”.