Bring Your Daughter To Rob Day: Police Seek Man Who Robbed Store With Daughter in Tow

Even for those of us who practice in the criminal law area, some crimes simply leave us stunned. In Ellensburg, Washington, Robert Daniel Webb, 42, brought his 9-year-old daughter as he robbed a convenience store with a handgun. The girl is shown in the video below watching her father commit the armed robbery at 2:45 am.

In pointing the gun at the clerk, Webb reportedly said “Open the till and got me what you have … I’m out of work. My daughter’s got to survive.” He made off with about $200.00.

Webb apparently has been unemployed for months.

Webb later dropped off his daughter, Meadow, the daughter, at the home of a friend and disappeared. She has been taken into protective custody in the small town of Fortuna, Calif.

In 2007, Webb’s wife won a restraining order against Webb, accusing him of drinking heavily and trying to choke her as well as threatening her with a bow and arrow.

Despite this record and the shocking act, the story has struck a cord with many citizens as more and more parents desperately struggle to deal with the recession and unemployment. Nevertheless, this is one desperate measure not justified by desperate times.

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