This is from Western Pennsylvania, which might as well be Eastern Ohio, but, it’s close enough :)

The thing that really gets me about this story is the fact that the parents didn’t quite seem to think they did anything wrong. They just figured that the girl wanted to chill with the dog in the back of a pickup truck, on the turnpike, in a cage.

Two parents face charges after authorities say motorists spied a 10-year-old girl riding in a dog cage in the back of a pickup truck in western Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports ( http://bit.ly/13Wrtor ) police say it happened around 7 p.m. Monday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Millvale, just outside Pittsburgh. Authorities say they responded after getting reports from motorists who saw the girl riding in the back of the truck in the cage. Her mother, 29-year-old Abbey Carlson, (FACEBOOK PROFILE) and stepfather, 30-year-old Thomas Fishinger (FACEBOOK PROFILE), are now facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Police say they told them the girl had said she wanted to be with the dog. SOURCE: ABC News.

It’s funny how the mom’s Facebook page is littered with pictures about how she loves her daughter and how she’s totally against animal cruelty.

Could there be a more ironic Facebook profile currently on Facebook? Me thinks not.

You are officially invited to this Saturday’s ROAST of LVwithLOVE at Artsquest to benefit Turning Point of the Lehigh Valley.