http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/grandpa-leaves-granddaughter-desert-gun
Via Raw Story:
Paul Armand Rater, 53, was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix on suspicion of two counts of felony child abuse and one count of felony child endangerment stemming from incident on Sunday night.
Deputies said he and the child left their home in Buckeye, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Phoenix, in a pickup truck early on Sunday afternoon and that the girl was reported missing four hours later.
She was eventually located in the desert by her mother and an off-duty firefighter. The child was holding the powerful pistol.
“She was given the gun and told to shoot any bad guys,” Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Reuters by telephone. “I don’t know how a five-year-old can tell a good guy from a bad guy, but that’s what she said she was told.”
Rater was later located at a store where he told deputies the vehicle had broken down and that he had left the girl under a tree in the desert because she was complaining she could not walk anymore, court records showed.
He admitted leaving the girl with his gun, “while he went for a few drinks and a cheeseburger,” the sheriff’s office said.
given the state and desert i wonder was he instructing the 5 year old to shoot potentially presumed illegal border crosser's?????????????????? what bad guy even in his obviously warped mind would be in the desert no mention of water or food except the mentally challenged "grandpa" going to get his drink on with a cheeseburger. in a more perfect world she should have followed his instructions and blew his head off one bag guy down. this isn't a perfect world and she his saved from that experience.
