Imagine trusting your own mother to babysit your child, only to find out she’s been locking your 5-year-old in a room to have some steamy time with her new boyfriend! That’s exactly what happened to our protagonist, a 24-year-old mom who was left feeling betrayed and shocked by her mother’s actions. The question now is: did she overreact by cutting off her mom’s babysitting privileges? Let’s dive into the story…
The Babysitting Arrangement

Grandma’s New Boyfriend

The Promise

Sage’s Revelation

Confronting Mom ️

Denial and Accusations

The Truth Comes Out

The Explosion

No More Babysitting

Finding Alternatives

Sage Misses Grandma

The Dilemma ♀️

Grandma’s Babysitting Nightmare: Did She Go Too Far?
So, our protagonist discovered that her mother was locking her 5-year-old daughter in a room to have sex with her new boyfriend, Mark. After a heated confrontation, she decided to cut off her mom’s babysitting privileges, leaving her to find alternative childcare. With Sage missing her grandma, our protagonist can’t help but wonder if she overreacted. Let’s see what the internet thinks of this situation…
Locked up, alone, and denied bathroom access?! NTA to infinity!

Grandma locks child for sex, lies, blames child. NTA. ♀️

Locking a child in a room for sex? NTA, hold the line!

Mom locks 5-year-old for sex, liar blames child, NTA for parent

Grandma locks 5-year-old in room for sex, calls her liar. NTA.

Grandma locks 5-year-old in room for sex, NTA commenter advises.

Grandma’s steamy rendezvous puts granddaughter in danger. NTA.

Mom put daughter at risk and lied. NTA for confronting her

NTA – Mother locks child away for sex, commenter suggests no more babysitting

Mother locks child for sex, commenter calls out lack of morals

Commenter condemns appalling behavior of mother. NTA.

Commenter suggests legal action for child neglect and abuse.

Protective commenter supports OP’s decision to call out irresponsible grandma.

Commenter seeks clarification on mom’s gaslighting behavior.

Protecting daughter from grandma’s steamy rendezvous

Mother violates safety rules, lies and gaslights. Not trustworthy. #NTA

Grandma locks child in room for steamy rendezvous. NTA’s concerns valid.

Doubting the authenticity of the scandalous story

Grandma prioritized her sexual needs over granddaughter’s safety. NTA.

Mom locks child for steamy rendezvous, commenter sets clear boundaries.

Grandma and her lover locked 5-year-old in room for sex
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Mom prioritizes new boyfriend over child’s safety and lies. NTA.

Validating Sage’s feelings and redirecting is important. NTA.
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Mother relieved daughter not touched, but still risky behavior. NTA.

NTA for supporting child safety

Parent defends decision to prioritize child’s safety over mother’s desires

Mother locks 5-year-old in room for steamy rendezvous, commenter advises against leaving child with mother ever again. #ChildAbuse #NTA

Commenter calls out mom’s irresponsible behavior.

Commenter suggests NTA and questions child’s schooling, receives informative replies.

Grandma locked 5yo alone while she had sex. NTA’s advice.

Putting safety first, NTA prioritizes child over steamy rendezvous.

Commenter sympathizes with OP’s experience with neglectful mother.

NTA commenter questions the morality of locking a child for sex.

Mother locks 5-year-old in room for steamy rendezvous. Commenter reacts.

Grandma locked 5-year-old in room for sex, NTA for stopping her.

Protective parent, rightfully concerned for child’s safety.

NTA but concerns raised about possible abuse and manipulation

Commenter advises calling out mom’s child abuse to prevent harm.

Grandma’s steamy rendezvous leads to NTA comment and advice

Foster parent defends OP, urges caution and communication with child.
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Parent defends locking child in room for sex, NTA.

Commenter questions mom’s priorities for locking child in room.

Protect your child from bad judgement. Don’t trust grandma alone.
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Mother locks 5-year-old in room for steamy rendezvous, commenter calls for no more babysitting and expresses anger for the situation.

Locking a 5-year-old alone is abuse. NTA for not allowing unsupervised visits.

Commenter is not the a**hole in this situation

NTA, good job standing up to your abusive mother
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Setting boundaries with family is important for child safety.

Grandma locked 5yo in room for sex, OP is NTA.

Grandma endangered child for a booty call. NTA for setting boundaries.

Mom neglects daughter for lover, NTA for seeking boundaries.

Commenter supports mom’s actions with a smirk emoji

Working mom suggests finding alternative childcare due to neglectful mother.

Cutting off toxic family? NTA says it all

Curious about the child’s education, but agreed on mother’s behavior.

Commenter emphatically supports the original poster’s actions.

Childcare worker shares heartbreaking experience of child abuse.

Standing up for her daughter against abusive mother.

Neglectful parenting? This comment raises some serious questions

Blaming a child for your actions? That’s a new low

Mom locks daughter for steamy rendezvous, NTA calls out mother

Grandchild locked up for sex? NTA, grandma’s behavior is bizarre

Not the a**hole, but still not a great parenting decision ♂️

Grandchild ignored for steamy rendezvous? NTA wins this round.

Commenter’s shock at situation conveyed with humor and slang

Red flags raised about mother’s behavior with daughter and men

Grandma locked child for sex, NTA for firing babysitter.

Locking a child for sex? Definitely not the a-hole here.
