Ibu Nekat Menyusui Bayi Sambil Kemudikan Sepeda Motor
Mother Breastfeeding Baby while Driving a Moped
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
SEORANG wanita dihentikan oleh polisi karena kedapatan menyusui bayinya saat mengendarai sepeda motor khas Cina yang disebut moped.
Ibu muda itu diduga mengemudi melalui lalu lintas yang ramai di Yuzhou, Cina ketika dia distop polisi.
Petugas mengatakan dia mengendarai mopednya melalui jalan raya yang ramai sambil memegang bayinya yang berusia 18 bulan di pangkuannya saat ia menyusui, dan polisi memaksanya berhenti untuk mencegah keduanya celaka, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Saksi menyatakan bahwa mereka melihat sang ibu yang nekat menyusui anak seraya memegang bayi dengan tangan kirinya dan tangan kanan memegang stang moped.
Breitbart laporan bahwa polisi khawatir ia mempertaruhkan hidupnya, kehidupan putranya dan kehidupan semua pengguna jalan lainnya.
Mereka menambahkan bahwa jika dia ditangkap maka polisi akan menyita moped tersebut.
Pada bulan Juni 2008, Catherine Donkers, 29, dituduh membahayakan anaknya ketika mencoba menyusui putrinya saat mengemudi dari Detroit ke Pittsburgh. Dia juga tampaknya mengemudi tanpa dilengkapi SIM.
Dalam pembelaannya, dia mengaku menggunakan ponsel yang lebih banyak mengganggu ketimbang 'menyusui' anak saat mengemudi.
Dan pada 2009 seorang ibu mabuk yang menyusui bayinya berusia lima bulan di belakang kemudi ketika dia hampir menabrak mobil polisi.
Remaja itu begitu mabuk dia tidak bisa memberikan tes napas pinggir jalan dan ditangkap di tempat kejadian di kota Alice Springs, Australia.
A WOMAN has been stopped by police for aparently breastfeeding her baby while riding a moped.
The young mother was allegedly driving through the streets of Yuzhou, China when she was pulled over.
Officers said she was weaving through traffic while holding her 18-month-old son on her lap as he breastfed, and they pulled her over before she had an accident.
Witnesses have claimed they saw the mother begin to breastfeed the child while keeping a hand on the handlebars.
Breitbart reports that police were concerned she was risking her life, her son's life and the lives of all the other road users.
They added that if she carried on they would take her bike away.
In June 2008, Catherine Donkers, 29, was accused of child endangerment for trying to breastfeed her daughter while driving from Detroit to Pittsburgh. She was also apparently driving without a licence.
In her defence she said using a mobile phone caused far more distraction than 'nursing a child' while driving.
And in 2009 a drunken mother was breast-feeding her five-month-old baby at the wheel when she almost crashed into a police car.
The teenager was so drunk she could not provide a roadside breath test and was arrested at the scene in the Australian town of Alice Springs.
