Your logic is a bit off. So every time I go to the grocery store and leave my child with my husband, I'm abandoning them? Two parents have equal responsibility for their children so I don't understand how you are saying they both abandoned the child simply because she left first. If they left together, that would be different but that is not what the article suggests.

Spouses argue all the time, and sometimes one leaves to cool off, that doesn't equate abandonment. For all we know, she left for a walk without her keys and he left to find her or was mad he was left with the baby so he locked the kid in the house. The husband/father is in the wrong here. Also, just because they're arguing doesn't necessarily equate abuse. "Rivera's girlfriend fled from the house during a verbal argument, police said. A short time later, Rivera left, locking the couple's 1-year-old in the house."

As for the statement by another regarding restraining orders. He didn't lock her out with himself inside. He left and locked her out, leaving the child unattended. Someone locking out a person who intends to cause harm or has previously is completely warranted and happens to both sexes.

I agree with you. The man was the last one with the baby, so he is the one who did wrong. It doesn't matter if they live together or not. The article states that he lives on Orange St. and the home they were at was on Madison Ct. Just because they were heatedly arguing doesn't mean that he would physically harm the baby. She left the baby with him, and he left the baby alone. Even if he weren't the father, I think that he'd still be responsible for leaving a baby locked in the house alone.

I would love to hear the WHOLE story... We already know this man is guilty of being a man. I'd bet if there was NO BABY involved, the POLICE would have coached this woman into saying her life was threated. Odds are that this man would have been charged NO MATTER WHAT!