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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a Washington state man apparently caught on video holding up a convenience store as his young daughter watches and telling the clerk he is unemployed and needs money to support the girl.

The Kittitas County sheriff's office says Robert Daniel Webb robbed the store Tuesday in Ellensburg, 95 miles southeast of Seattle.

The man in the store surveillance video points a gun at the clerk and says: "Open the till and got me what you have ... I'm out of work. My daughter's got to survive."

The sheriff's office says Webb made off with about $200.

Webb and his 9-year-old daughter were last seen later Tuesday in Yakima, 28 miles south of Ellensburg.

So, taking your daughter to an armed robbery? "Now listen honey, daddy's going to show you what not to do." ?

I can understand that this man may be desperate but, but, I am at a loss for words.

I feel sorry for the kid - normally when your young you can live in blissful ignorance of exactly how much of a douche your dad is, this had blown any of those illusions she may have had.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Video_Man_Robs_Store_Daughter_fc_200904022383971
This one has video, the man seems to be doing this because he thinks his daughter is going to starve.

So its all for the kids?

Shades of Arrested Development

Maybe the mother isn't around anymore and he couldn't afford a babysitter so he had to bring her along. It is possible to be a good parent even if your way of getting money to feed your kid involves robbing convenience stores.

Yeah at least he didn't leave her in the car with the windows rolled up on a really hot, sunny day...

Maybe the mother isn't around anymore and he couldn't afford a babysitter so he had to bring her along. It is possible to be a good parent even if your way of getting money to feed your kid involves robbing convenience stores.

Asking her to stand outside the door while he popped inside to do some 'shopping' would seem the better parental decision if he just had to rob a shop with daughter in tow

Well beyond "setting a bad example." Displacement of his own criminal action onto the kid. He does a very bad thing (theft I would tolerate far better, this is the threat to a life) and explicitly puts the responsibility on a kid.

If he's that far gone from the proper role of a parent (he thinks feeding or housing her is more important than not harming her) then it was well past the time someone else should have taken over the job which he plainly wasn't up to.

We need to put a cash value on parenthood. Performance pay! And when putative parents fail to do the job, it's not "taking their kids away" but sacking for gross incompetence.

Long, long before it comes to this.

When I was in juvenile justice school ( a county school for those who had been kicked out), my sophomore year. The only other white guy i was with his dad had gotten busted during a home robbery while he and his sister were told to wait in the car. Funny at the time, kinda sad now.

It is not exactly the kind of day you would want if you were a prostitute let's say ;)