] SYRACUSE, New York (AP) -- A 5-year-old girl was found
] bound in duct tape under a tarp at an abandoned warehouse
] Sunday, a day after she left home to visit a friend two
] blocks away.
]
] The girl's mother told police her daughter left their
] Syracuse home at 6 p.m. Saturday to visit her friend. The
] mother called the friend's house to see if the girl
] arrived safely and called police when she learned she
] hadn't.

Ok, not that the person who did this doesn't deserve to go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but WTF was this mother thinking? A 5 year old walking by themselves to a friends house? Christ.