14-year old Boy returns lost 3-year old to mother; Is arrested within minutes

[Nique]

That'll show him to be helpful!

So an irresponsible mother looses her toddler in a store and the teenager who may have saved her from an actual creep is branded a kidnapper (likely other things amoung his peers now that the story has spread).

The raging paranoia about pedophiles and child abduction is making it difficult to be a decent person.