LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine — A local woman is accused of assaulting two people and taking her grandchild out of a bed at a baby sitter’s house without permission Thursday night.
Judy Burgess, 46, of Livermore Falls was charged with two counts of assault and two counts of criminal trespassing, Livermore Falls Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said Friday.
Burgess went to the child’s mother’s residence in the Meadowbrook housing complex off Moose Hill Road. When she found out her grandchild wasn’t there, she went to a second residence nearby. She took the sleeping child from a bed during the 9:50 p.m. incident, Steward said.
The baby sitter tried to stop her but she couldn’t, he said.
Burgess was intoxicated at the time, Steward said.
Outside the residence, the child’s mother confronted Burgess, and the child was returned to the mother, he said.
When police arrived, Burgess was walking her bicycle out of the complex.
Burgess was arrested and enroute to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn complained of jaw pain, Steward said. She was taken to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston and was treated.
Police issued her a summons and she was released into the custody of friend, he said.
Really nice Grandma. What were you thinking?
Try asking her. Drunk or not, I’d give her the benefit of any doubt to begin with. When confronted by the mother, her daughter or daughter-in-law, presumably, she gave up the child. No one, and I mean, no one should question a grandmother unless they have very, very good cause to do so, even if the grandmother is, more or less, drunk.
Anyone grabbing a child and trying to flee with them while drunk absolutely should be confronted — grandparents included.
Even the child’s own parent should be confronted in circumstances like this.
Id bet she was concerned the child was with a babysitter that wasnt’ fit…but Id say none of them are truly mentally stable..just a guess
In an unstable world, who really is mentally stable?
That sounds like kidnapping to me if she actually removed a child completely from a residence
Why should the mother have the child taken away? I have a friend babysit my daughter overnight at her home once a week, because my work/school schedule is so crazy then, that it makes sense. I get out of school at 9pm, and have to be at work at 2am. How do you know it isn’t a similar case for this mother?
Also, the babysitter did nothing wrong here. Why should she get a ‘slap on the wrist’?
When I babysat as a teen, the parents were often not home until well after midnight. The grandmother was intoxicated per the article, there is no blame for any others unless there is more to the story. What a strange post.
And the winner of the Grandmother of the Year award goes to Miss Judy Burgess of Livermore Falls, Maine. Unfortunately, Miss Burgess cannot be here to accept her award because she is sobering up and resting her jaw.
Livemore Falls is a scary place to drive through, let alone live.
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Like DHHS can be trusted. Remember Logan Marr? She was put into foster care by DHHS and her foster mother covered her mouth with duct tape and she suffocated.
“When police arrived, Burgess was walking her bicycle out of the complex.” – Just how was she planning on taking this child any further than the driveway? Drink another bottle of Allen’s, lady.
“Outside the residence, the child’s mother confronted Burgess, and the child was returned to the mother, he said.
When police arrived, Burgess was walking her bicycle out of the complex.”
Drink another bottle, read article again ;)
Yes, by then the child HAD been returned to his/her mother. Had the mother NOT shown up, and succeeded in leaving with the child is where Seredipity79’s question comes into play.
So….you think that in the grandmother’s intoxicated state her thought process was, “I’m going to remove my grandchild from bed at the babysitter’s, get into an argument outside with their mother, hand my grandchild over, and go home.”?
It was in jest. But, I doubt she had much of a thought process going on at all! Had Mom not retrieved her child, I’m willing to bet Grandma would have realized the bicycle just wouldn’t work and walk.
For all we know, the grandchild is 8. They could’ve walked together and an 8 year old is not going to question Grandma, they are going to trust her.
Jaw pain??probibly from flappin her gums to much..so many grandmother “Hero”s” out there that stick there beak in where it doesn’t belong most of the time.Trust me on this one folk’s,I lived that”nightmare” once,she,the Grandmother and mother to my now ex-girlfriend had red hair to boot!!The worst experience I ever went through!!There should be laws to stop woman like that,because 99 percent of the time,they,grandparents,ruin a good thing