Let's Separate The Idiots From The Criminals
The justice system is clogged enough without tossing in people who aren't actual criminals.

At NBC Los Angeles, Ash-har Quraishi writes:

A couple's attempt to highlight public reaction to child endangerment backfired, their hidden camera social experiment instead led to criminal charges, an investigation and their 3-year-old being taken away from them.

Laura Quijano can be seen on camera explaining the social experiment to her 3-year-old son Leo. The hidden camera experiment involved 28-year-old Boguslaw Matlak placing his son in the trunk of his car to see if bystanders intervened.

"The back of the seat was folded open and my wife was in the car and she was just taking him," Matlak said.

Well, Matlak got arrested and then...

As a result, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services removed Leo from his parents' custody and placed him with a relative. For the last three weeks, the couple has complied with every request trying to get him back.

Shortly after NBC 5's inquiries to DCFS, the family was notified that the agency would be returning Leo to their custody.

Matlak still faces one count of misdemeanor child endangerment and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.

But if the back of the seat was indeed open, how was there child endangerment?

That should have taken like 30 seconds to determine.