When my kids were that age they slept when they felt like, and would often need walks in the evening, especially if teething fussiness hit. Note, if you reread the article, that it doesn't even say the attack was IN a liquor store.... it was out front. It was a 'liquor depot' liquor store, and not one of them in my neighborhood is a stand alone store. All are next to drug stores, video stores, pizza joints, etc.
Regardless, even if she was in the liquor store, you seem awfully hung up on making a value judgement about her shopping for alcohol... why is that? Is there something wrong with taking a child into a liquor store? or is it the drinking if you're a parent you find offensive?
Fair enough about the locational details.
About myself commenting on the mother possibly buying alcohol with her infant at late night (You might have had children stay up as late as they wanted, I was given a time pattern and was in bed at an early hour for as long as I could remember) My parents didn't take us to the liqour store, and if they did, we were left in the car, not allowed to go into the store "As it was for adults" when I was growing up.
My issue isn't with the mother buying alcohol and possibly drinking it, I have a minor flag raised when the information leans towards her not having someone around available to watch her child while she went to the store to get alcohol (That is, if she was there to get some in the first place) ~ Now where I am leading with that is that if she doesn't have someone to watch the child while she is doing this, does she have someone to watch the child while she gets her drink on later that night or will she be watching over her child intoxicated?
I ask that because my parents never drank unless they were away from us and we had a baby sitter or family member watching over us. Even my friends with children won't smoke or drink in front of their kids... let alone take them to the liqour store to get the stuff.
To me personally, dragging your kids into the liqour store is not much different then dragging them to the porn store..... it's adult stuff that they probably shouldn't be surrounded by and given the impression that those things are acceptible at their age or else why were they let in. Sure those things are acceptible for adults and we abuse the hell out of them plenty when we can.... but they don't need to know that right away
To sum up, the reason why I made that comment was because I was curious as to how many mothers actually do that with their children, because my parents never did, nor did most parents or friends I known.
Then it got twisted into thinking I was blaming her like some rape victim, and then all this went down this path.