Mom of the Year Brings Toddler on Drive-By Shooting
Ever feel like a bad mom because you sent your toddler for a time out, or maybe you didn’t give in to their want of the day?
Well, luckily for you there are worse parents out there!
Just when you think you have read everything in terms of horrible parenting antics, something creeps into the spotlight that makes you wonder what in the hell that mother was thinking.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, 42-year-old Vera Castillo took her toddler and nine-month-old baby on a drive by shooting. Exactly, you can’t make this stuff up!
Police say Ms. Castillo drove by and fire shots at the man in question and after fleeing the scene she returned, again, with both children still in the vehicle to fire some more shots!
What in the hell?
Thankfully the victim was not hurt, and neither were the children strapped in their car seats in the rear of the car. But seriously? A drive by? I mean… what exactly would persuade someone to take their kids out committing crimes with guns involved? Not enough wholesome family activities in their life?
Poor kids!
Castillo was taken into police custody and charged with attempted murder, and unfortunately, or maybe fortunately the children have been taken into state custody for the time being.
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So there is a line you draw in determining a bad mother. Spanking apparently isn’t it because that’s a mom war we should avoid, right? But hey apparently there are just some choices moms make that get under your skin aren’t there? I’m not saying this mother was right, but how can you write about mom wars and we’re all just trying to do the best by these kids one day and the next completely bash a woman? Hey, she had them in the car seat. That should count for something. And she didn’t get arrested for child endangerment so I guess it’s not against the law to bring your kids to a drive by. However, you can get arrested for spanking. Kind of ironic to me that you have these lines drawn in the sand of what’s appropriate and what’s inappropriate in parenting choices. Who put you in charge of the morality of parenting and who can and cannot say something about someone’s choices? Again, I am not saying this woman was right by any means. I get that it was dangerous having bullets flying around so close to young children and not to mention the mental damage witnessing that can do to a small child, but come on you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say we should support mothers, but then completely bash one that you don’t know for the choices that she made. Unless you know her personally or why she did it I don’t think this goes along with your stop with the mom wars.
@Kaylee – It isn’t about judging, its a sarcasm piece.
So which one was sarcasm? This one or your one earlier in the week? And why is it that every time someone points out your inconsistencies you cry sarcasm? You can’t hide behind the word sarcasm forever. Either you are a sarcastic writer or you aren’t and you can’t expect people to know when you’re being sarcastic and when you’re not when you flip flop apparently between the two. Mom wars are all about judgement though so either you are judging or your not. If this was meant as sarcasm well it didn’t come off as that way at all. At least you sure feel you’re better than this mom (as I’m sure most do) and you came here to tell everyone what a bad mom she is. Sarcasm or not, I guess we all should just cry sarcasm when someone says we are starting a mom war. If that’s a valid defense then you won’t mind that I use it, right?
I agree with Kaylee…can you point pout which piece was the sarcastic one? Will wait for you answer…have a great day!
Sorry about the typos…the word should be “out”, not “pout”! And “you” should have read “your”! I blame the heat!
Okay…I hope this does not should up twice…sorry about the typos…”pout” should have read “out” and “you should have been “your”….I blame the heat!
What the hell!! People are so stupid! And there is a huge difference between a mom who spanks kids and mom who shoots people
Perhaps you should add a disclaimer to your posts. There has been several occasions that you have written something that, to the readers, comes across as extremely judgmental. Only after someone comments disagreeing with your stance and pointing out the flaws of your stance do you claim you were kidding or being sarcastic. If your “sarcasm” is not obviously apparent to your intended audience, then the issue is obviously with your writing, not their comprehension.
I, too, would like to know how this post isn’t an example of you adding to the Mom Wars and which post was intending to be sarcastic?
She won’t answer, she never does when she is caught lying or being a hypocrite. She runs and hides, or she will come back with the response of “troll” “stalker”.
Are you guys nuts?! Are we really defending a would – be murderer and attacking the writer?
It has to do with the fact that Danielle claims to be so tired of the so called mom wars yet she is constantly berating other moms for their choices! If she really wants to see these so called mom wars stop then she needs to mind her own kids and parenting instead of “writing” about what other moms are doing. Her lying and saying it’s sarcasm when called out for being a hypocrite is typical Danielle. No one is attacking her btw. It’s called being responsible for her words which she never had been able to do.
This has absolutely nothing to do with saying this woman was in the right. If you took the time to read my comment ChristinaMom, then you would have seen I said I couple of times that I’m not saying what happened here was right by any means, but I was wondering who dubbed this writer the moral police. She JUST wrote this week about mom wars and how we should just stop them. Then she’s here passing judgement on a MOTHER. Whether or not she deserves it is neither or nor there. Because many could argue that the mother who spanks deserves to be judged because of the psychological damage that has proven to cause, but yet this writer thinks it’s a mom war that should just stop. And well apparently one of these pieces is supposed to be sarcastic. So since she has yet to come back and say which piece was actually sarcastic I’ll go out on a limb and say she probably meant this one to be in sarcasm. So that means that in her mind she thinks this mother’s parenting choices are just fine? If mom wars are any attack on another mother though, then sarcasm is no defense to that. And it would appear that this writer does that a lot here. Own up to your mistakes. Be honest with your readers. But don’t tell me not to pass judgement on someone who I think is abusing her child by spanking him if you can pass judgement on a woman who took her children with her on a drive by. That’s called being a hypocrite. Don’t tell me I can’t call her out on being a hypocrite either. No matter how right or wrong this mother was in her actions, this writer in my opinion and apparently others needs to decide which side of the fence she wants to sit on. Does she want the mom wars to stop? Or is she the only one who can make judgmental statements? Or is it okay to make judgmental statements so long as you say it’s just me being sarcastic? If that’s a defense for it then every time this writer gets called out on her parenting I guess all the commenter has so say is I was just being sarcastic. All is good now because I was just being sarcastic. Sorry the sarcasm card doesn’t fly with me. How about you? Laughing and joking is one thing, if you’re good at it. But several times this writer has missed the mark there and perhaps she should give up the sarcasm because it’s clearly not working for her!
Seriously! You people missed the sarcasm! I have never even read her past writing and only read this from the heading on facebook. How do you ladies find time in your day with children to read all the blogs and start these comment wars…. just another reason why children are bullying each other from examples like this!
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