Crime Weekly - S3 Ep177: Crime Weekly News: Mother Faces Backlash After Viral Video

Episode Date: February 1, 2024

Kambria Gabrielle Darby was arrested on January 17th when she brought her 2-year-old son, dressed only in a diaper, into a Mississippi Walmart. Temperatures were freezing and witnesses were shocked, including a Walmart employee that recorded the boy shaking in a video that has now gone viral. Try our coffee!! - www.CriminalCoffeeCo.com Become a Patreon member -- > https://www.patreon.com/CrimeWeekly Shop for your Crime Weekly gear here --> https://crimeweeklypodcast.com/shop Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CrimeWeeklyPodcast Website: CrimeWeeklyPodcast.com Instagram: @CrimeWeeklyPod Twitter: @CrimeWeeklyPod Facebook: @CrimeWeeklyPod

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neglect charge after concerned shoppers at a Mississippi Walmart called police when she brought her two-year-old son into the store dressed in only a diaper in freezing temperatures. Now, as a father, I hate this story already. Absolutely hate it. But I don't know the details. So fill us in. So I first heard about this on TikTok, where, you know, before the mainstream media gets

anything, TikTok's on it. They really are. They are on it because somebody took a video, and it was actually a Walmart employee who took a video, and this video has gone viral, and it's bad. It's bad. There's no excuse for any of this. So apparently, Cambria Darby entered the store.

She herself was fully clothed for the below freezing temperatures, but her young son, who was two, was only wearing a diaper. And so she was confronted by store employees and other customers. And one store employee, Felicia Darling, recorded a video of the incident and posted it to Facebook. Felicia Darling said something to the mother, as did a male customer. Here's some of the interaction. He came in here with that jacket on. That baby just had a pimple on. That's all he got on. I can't.

She's just an innocent soul. He didn't ask to be here. So I took action and I started recording her. Then it's in the video. She throw cold food on the baby. Yeah, don't do that. And he sadly just looked down. Somebody call police on her.

It seemed like in his eyes, he was just looking for help. He was crying out for help. Get out that man. A man was telling her, you throwing cold food on the baby. She walked off and flirt. I ain't, I ain't doing nothing. I just, I just. I just throw the cold food on the child. I ain't playing with you. I ain't playing with you. I ain't playing with you.

Yeah, don't do that. Somebody call the police. No, what's wrong with you? Somebody call the police on her. Who are you? Know your voice. Who are you? Get out that man, please.

You crazy. What the hell? Somebody call the police on her. Go ahead. But when you come in the store fully dressed in your baby's night. A customer in a riding shopping cart purchases an outfit for the boy and dresses him while the mother flips through her phone. Insane. What an idiot. What an absolute idiot. And her response to it is even worse. Yeah, and it gets even worse because she has recently responded and we're going to play that.

But for those of you who are listening on audio and are not watching on video, you see you can't see the child because he's blurred out, but you can see that he does not have any clothes on. It looks like she threw her jacket on top of him when she walked in. But that means she brought him from the car into the store with nothing on. She puts him in the the cart, not the part where the babies usually sit, but in the part where you put the food and stuff. She puts him in there on cold plastic and then she's throwing like frozen food on him. And when she gets called out about this, she kind of is like just getting a little confrontational. And then she walks away with the car and starts twerking as if like, I don't care what you have to say. And then somebody

says, you know, we need to call the police. She's like, do it. They've already called two times. They've already been here two times. As long as you have hot water and a fire extinguisher, you're fine. So she's basically like flaunting this. Like, I can do whatever I want. Nothing's going to happen. And then another customer approaches who bought a little outfit for this child and starts dressing this woman's child while she stands a few feet away from the cart, looking through her phone and allowing this to happen.

So this video that was taken by the Walmart employee, whose name once again is Felicia Darling, it was taken down off of Facebook, but not before it went viral. Felicia Darling, who's been a Walmart employee for five years, has since been fired for taking this video and posting it. The company's response to Darling losing her job for stepping in and being a good person, being concerned about a two-year-old child, is this, quote, We don't discuss personnel matters involving current or former associates. All associates are encouraged and empowered to use their judgment in contacting authorities when they see something that may be wrong. However, all associates are also expected to follow the Walmart code of conduct, end quote. So before I move on to the next portion, you saw the video. What do you think about it? It pisses you off,

right? Yeah, it pisses me off. I mean, my initial reaction when we came back from the video, that's where I stand on it. Absolute idiot. Clearly just someone who doesn't really care. And I do feel like it's someone who doesn't like to be told what to do or what they're doing wrong, which is why she had that type of reaction where she's just gonna at this point now she's just instigating him she even the little twerk dance at one point it's less about the kid and it's more about her at this point i don't know what i don't know i don't know who hurt her in

the past where she feels like she needs to do this but clearly that child if that's if that's how she's treating him in public it is i don't know if we know if it's a boy or a girl because it was blurted out but you said it was a son didn't you let me see at't know if we know if it's a boy or a girl because it was blurted out, but you said it was a son, didn't you? Didn't we see at the top of the show? Yeah, it's a boy. So my thing is, at this point in her life, he's probably better off somewhere else. Honestly, that's how I truly feel. So it's funny that you say that. If this is how she's treating him in public, how is she treating him in private? Because she has responded to these allegations.

She had no choice at this point. And she says something about that. We're going to get there in a second. But Cambria Darby was arrested after police followed her to her vehicle and determined that although her child was clothed, not due to her efforts, due to efforts of a fellow customer, he was still freezing and shaking from the cold. Darby was arrested for child neglect and CPS responded, releasing the child to an approved relative. Now, Cambria Darby's relatives have spoken out in her defense with her great aunt saying, quote, everything I've seen with her and the kids has been positive. I don't condone what was done

and it was right to be reported, but we don't know both sides of the story. Sometimes kids can be difficult not wanting to put clothes on or taking them off, and maybe she was in a rush to pick up some things, end quote. So we can see already, maybe this woman was raised in an environment of no accountability because that doesn't make any sense, okay? Yes, children are sometimes difficult to get dressed, but it was a two-year-old child. You can put clothes on this child. What's he going to do? Hulk out and throw you into a wall? You put clothes on the child. And if you absolutely can't for whatever reason, then whatever it is you needed to get can certainly wait. OK. Or she has other kids. Leave your child with the person that you're leaving your other kids with or just do something else besides this. Right. Because this

is actual child abuse. This is bad. So this is what her aunt says in her defense. And Cambria Darby herself has responded via TikTok announcing that she has a GoFundMe page. Now, the person who took this video, Felicia Darling, she was fired and she too had a GoFundMe page set up for her because she was fired for doing the right thing. So there's a real legitimate reason to set up a GoFundMe page. Where is the common sense? Real quick. Let's not skate over that. Where is the common sense, Walmart?

I get it. I get the policy and I understand the policy, but there's a point where- What's the policy? Well, the policy on the surface. On the surface, I get it. A, as Walmart employees, you're not allowed to record while in the capacity of your duty. You're not allowed to record our customers. I get that. I get the premise behind it. I think you can make an exception in this state. as executives, and I'm sure this went up the chain, you got to look at it as a case by case basis. We know it's almost like the constitution in a way, right? Like it's designed in a certain

way to protect certain things, but there's comes a level of common sense. Like, again, I don't want to go down this road, but we always have the gun argument and I'm, I'm pro second amendment as far as being able to own a gun. but I've always said and gotten murdered for it online that I don't think the people who originally wrote the constitution, our forefathers, predicted that civilians would have access to AR-15s. So it's a different world. So I think when you write that policy, the intent behind it is right. It's good. I don't want to be recorded by employees while I'm shopping for food, but if there's an opportunity to protect a child, that Walmart employee should not be fired. They should be promoted. They should be honored for it. They should be giving

them employee of the month because they're going above and beyond what they're required to do to protect their customers and their children, even if it's protecting them from the parents. So I just, it makes no sense to me. Maybe they were like, oh, you shouldn't have posted it. You know, the police came, she was arrested. What needed to happen happened. You shouldn't have posted it. That's fine.

But give her a warning. I get that. She posted it to her personal TikTok? Facebook, I believe. Facebook. Yeah. I see it, but still. Give people a warning. In a situation like this, especially if you're a parent, and from what I can tell

from what Cambria says, because she goes in on this employee, she's like, oh, you had a baby who died and I feel bad for you. So it looks like that this employee once had a child who passed away. So she's probably very- Sensitive to it. And cognizant of how a child is a blessing and you should treat the child as such instead of, you know, treating it like garbage. And so in that state, you can't really fault her for pulling out her phone and recording it because it was almost like I can't even believe this is happening. You know, so just give her a warning like you took her job away just for being a good Samaritan. Worst case scenario, suspend her for a week.

Yeah, to do something. Slap on the wrist. And by the way, wink and a nod, we're suspending you with paid leave. You know what I mean? Hey, on the surface, you're sending a message to the other employees. Hey, guys, not the right thing to do. Wink, wink. But, you know, we're going to suspend her because we got to uphold the policy. But she's on paid leave.

Yeah. So Cambria herself has responded on TikTok and she's announced that she has a GoFundMe and she needs money. And she said a number of things that illustrate her lack of self-awareness. Hey, y'all. So I am the girl inside the video. Certain things that I did just want to say. First of all, you wasn't helping with

the thing you didn't help with the thing you actually made stuff worse first of all you have a child that's dead rest in peace to your baby i pray that god can have you with more kids which i'm sure he will he'll definitely bless you with more children so as a mother you should know what it feels like to have some have your kids from you, have your children taken away from you. So right now, I lost 10 pounds currently because my kids are gone from me. I haven't seen my kids. I've seen them now under certain restrictions. But my son, he doesn't understand why like he need therapy now people i'm getting like harassments and things like that so um that's

what's going on with that situation um i know a lot of y'all want to know that baby must be living in horrible living conditions horrible if he's treated like that here i wonder how he's treated at home um so it's nothing how y'all try to say horrible living conditions never that never never ever ever ever ever never that so um that's that about that my biggest thing right now though um it's the false allegations that's out there about me not a bad mama never been a bad mama it's my main thing really honestly is just i miss my kids like i said my baby he misses he misses me and my biggest thing right now i'm gonna make a go for me for gas because i'm under um i don't really want to talk about the case too much, but I can see my kids under strict restrictions.

I want to raise money for gas, for that, to make sure I can see my babies, and for indoor activities. Because right now, we're not even in the safe space to even go to places. We can't even go nowhere publicly. Like, you really ruined a lot of stuff, ma'am. Like, for real. But if it was actually done from the goodness of your heart you know the bible says that you want to do stuff you know those who when you do good deeds you give to the needy i'm not needed by the way but you give to the needy you don't do it you know like hey look at

me look at me like how the um hypocrites would do you actually you know you do it in private you know to your father that is because you're doing it for public it's for people that can see you need to do it to your father that is unseen don't believe i saw your gofundme you have received your reward in full as the bible states something else like bearing false like i really really this is a learning lesson for you false witness that you're not um coming to give false testimonies against your neighbor that's what you're doing because the situation's like this now my kids have to heal from these i have to heal from these i'm going through stuff i don't know if i got my kids back yet

um but you know the bible says we can rejoice when we run into trouble because it builds endurance. Endurance builds character, and character builds strength, hope, and salvation. Everything happens for a reason. You tarnish my name. I'm a child's author. You can look me up on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. It's a lot, but I got faith in God. This is bringing me closer to God. I'm trying some tribulations. Everybody that's defending

me, thank you. Everybody that's praying for me, thank you. You know, this makes me appreciate my kids ten times more. You know, ten times, definitely 10 times more um definitely finding the positive every negative situation vengeance is mine says the lord his wrath cannot compare you know so and nobody needs to question god neither like why is he giving this girl money the girl that posted the video money you don't need to question him either because we can't tell him how to move his hand he says that you know i swear we can't tell him how to move his hand he's gonna do what he gonna do he gonna do he gonna do for me too now i know the outcome i will push through this like the lady was pushing through the crowd to just to touch the hymn of jesus garmin and her faith because of her faith when she wanted it was done so i'm gonna push through

i'm gonna push through this i'm still smiling still get up make my bed every day i can't eat you know i can eat a little bit probably like like a little munch, munchier, but if I just meals and stuff, I can't do that. Losing weight, I ask God, you know, God, I need help losing this baby weight. I just had a baby like five months ago. God works in mysterious ways. He's helping me with that.

So everything works out for your good. But this, my name is just Victoria so i'm very sad about that i'm not a bad mother at all just look there's a pray for me and like i said i'm gonna go find me for my kids because we but um hey god be with me my kids and everybody else and i look a mess i don't care because y'all don't y'all don't stop me looking at me y'all and i already saw me the world don't see me looking at me so i don't care about me coming on here't care because y'all don't stop me looking at me. Y'all and I already saw me. The world don't see me looking at me. So I don't care about me coming on in my pajamas. Y'all saw me in my bunny. I don't care about me with no lashes on. Y'all saw how I was looking in there. So it is what it is. Everything going to work out for my better.

This person's incredibly selfish, OK, and only thinks of herself. But pretty much she talks about how she started to go fund me for gas, but then she, like, just 30 seconds later says, I'm not needy, I'm not needy. She's talking very poorly about the employee, Felicia, who posted it, and she's basically saying, you know, oh, well, you did this for the wrong reason, you're financially benefiting, like, if you're going to do a good deed and it came from the goodness of your heart, well, why wouldn't you just do it and not have to tell everybody that you did it? And then she says, you know, you've tarnished my reputation. I'm a child's author. You can look up, you look me up on Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. She's saying she's starting GoFundMe. She wants,

but she's talking about God and Jesus a lot and everything happens for a reason. And God did this and God did that. And then she says she's lost weight. And it got me at the end because she's like, well, you know what? I've lost weight. And I asked for God to help me lose weight after I had my last baby five months ago. And, you know, that's what happened. And so everything happens for a reason, basically. And she finds a way to make everything about her and not answer at all what she did. And you heard her say early on, like, oh, people are saying, well, if that's how he's treated in public, then what's happening at home? It's not like that at all, she said. And it's like, that's exactly what you had said. Well, what is it like then? You know, like, why would you do

that in public if you're not going to do that in the privacy of your own home? What made you do that? She doesn't respond to that. She doesn't give any clarification. She doesn't answer. She doesn't take any responsibility. She's the victim. This is happening to her. She did nothing to cause it. And basically, she's Delulu, as the kids to her. She did nothing to cause it. And basically she's Delulu, as the kids say. I could summarize it easier for you. Bullshit. That's all it is. There you go. There's your synopsis of that video. Yeah, I'm going to turn this negative into a positive because there's not much more to say. She's in a place right now where she is not fit just from what I've seen on video to be alone with those children.

So thank God social services has stepped in. And hopefully, hopefully this eventually clicks in her head and she realizes what she's doing and make some changes. Because the one part of that whole video that was true is that her kids do not know. They've only experienced that life. So to them, it's normal and they love their mother and they're scared and confused and want to be with her. That's their mom. They don't understand the context of what's going on and how they should be treated.

They just see it as their norm, which makes it even more sad. But I hope for her sake and more importantly, the kid's sake, something does resonate with this eventually because right now it looks like she's just trying to monetize it. But hopefully eventually she gets the point and they're reunited and she learns and grows from this. But here's the positive from this video, what I take. videos where tragic things are happening and all that anyone is doing is recording it with their phones. I loved, I absolutely loved seeing employees, customers, everyone collectively coming together to stop something that they knew was wrong. In this world of social media, the reaction is always just to record and post it and get some likes. And Hey, it's not my problem. I'm not getting involved. You had multiple people from multiple backgrounds stepping in to tell her to her face, this is wrong. You had people stepping up to buy the children clothing or the child clothing. I loved it. And I hope that's the message that we all take from this is that we are in a world where this is a civil society. And if you

see something that you know is wrong, and there's an opportunity for you to step in and prevent it without bringing harm to yourself, that's what we should be doing. When you see a child being neglected right in front of your eyes, do what you know is right. Step in, put your phone down and prevent it from happening any further. So that's my takeaway from this video. As far as Cambria is concerned, not a fan of her at all. But I do hope for her sake and for the children's sake, she corrects her course. But if that video is any indication of where she's heading, it's probably going to be a while. You do. She could have just been like, it was absolutely horrendous. There were circumstances, but that's not even what this is about.

I feel terrible. It was absolutely wrong. My behavior when people tried to step in and help my child was abhorrent and I regret it. I was in a bad place and I'm really working to be better now. Like that would have reflected so well on her case to get her kids back. It would have made public opinion feel more supportive of her if they saw that she was actually taking accountability. But she just went right in with zero self-awareness. And at the end of the day, if you're in public, you have no expectation of privacy. People can record you when you are in

public. So you might want to just, I don't know, watch what you do in public. Now, I have no support for people out there who are just trying to like catch people or other people and doing things or trying to like instigate them so that they act out and they can record them. But I do agree with a healthy level of public shaming when somebody's doing something that deserves to be shamed, right? That's the only way that things change when people are made aware that their actions are wrong and seen as wrong on a grand scale. So with this situation, I have no problem with this Walmart employee posting this video because otherwise we wouldn't know about it. And there has to be. And hopefully

Cambria is reading some of these comments and And all she can talk about is people, thanks to the people who support me and defend me. Of course, that's all you can focus on because that's supporting your narrative. That's allowing you to die on this hill. That's allowing you to remain in your glass house, all safe and sound and cozy and not make any changes because change is hard. But at the end of the day, I hope she's reading some of these other comments, which are the majority of them, which are saying like, that is the wrong thing to do. You shouldn't have done that because a healthy level of public shaming when behavior is bad is to be expected and can sometimes be productive. So let us know what you think in the comments.

If you're watching on YouTube, what do you think about this whole situation? Is there any world where you can legitimately pull a defense out of your ass for this person? Let me know, please. Or not. Either way. Either way works. We don't need to hear the defense. No, listen, we appreciate you guys being here. Like, comment, subscribe. You know the deal. We'll be back later this week with Dan Markell, part number six. It's getting good now, so we hope to see you there. Again, if you want to check out CrimeCon, go over there, go to the website, use our code CRIMEWEEKLY. It's going good now. So we hope to see you there again. If you want to check out CrimeCon, go over there, go to the website, use our code CrimeWeekly. It's going to be a great time.

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