Gowanus Lounge has word of: "Scary Park Slope Incident #2: Dad & Baby Assaulted by Teen on Prospect Park West."

This follows a story that’s been on Park Slope Parents (and the Gowanus Lounge) about a family dispute that looked like a kidnapping. This incident occurred on October 10th around 5 p.m. in the Harmony Playground (also known as the 9th Street playground).

One reader of Park Slope Parents had this to say about that incident (I know the writer well and trust her account implicitly). She was there.

"I too was there and saw the whole thing happen. It
seems as if it is a family dispute. The father of the
two children was in the playground with the kids. The
mother, accompanied by 2 men, swooped in, pulled the
kids off the monkey bars, and took the two kids. She
ran out of the playground with them. The kids did not
cry–they obviously knew her. The father did not even
notice right away and when he did he, understandably,
freaked out.

A sad story for these kids and this family…but it
was not a stranger abduction so there is no cause for
community alarm. Perhaps a reminder, though, to speak
with your kids about dealing with strangers."