NYC mom fined for letting 4-year-old take an emergency wee in the park: ‘Absolutely insane’
NY Post
A spring day in the park was flushed down the toilet for a local mom after she was fined $50 for letting her four-year-old take an emergency wee outside.
Last Saturday, Michiko Sasaki, 46, and her young son, Kobe, were having a nice time at the Battery Playscape in Battery Park City when the boy suddenly had to go to the restroom.
Sasaki took him to the closest restroom in the park, but it was plastered with a sign reading “No bathrooms.”
She panicked. Kobe has anxiety issues and sensory processing disorder, a fairly common condition that affects how the brain receives and responds to information. It can sometimes cause Kobe to not be aware that he needs the bathroom until the very last minute.
“My son was like ‘I really need to go – I’m going to pee my pants,’” Sasaki, a professional dancer and actress who lives in Washington Heights, told The Post. It was “an emergency.”
Desperate, the fast-acting mom shielded her little boy as he pulled down his pants to quickly urinate.
