Oscar the Grouch was her accomplice. The ill-tempered and grumpy consigliere would ride shotgun on Cassie’s pink and purple Big Wheel as she terrorized her neighborhood.
Lately, the four-year-old was on a grouch spree, spilling red juice on Mrs. Allen’s white carpet, asking her sitter for tuna pie with chocolate sauce for lunch, and demanding her parents allow her to sleep in a trash can.
The same day Cassie was reported missing, and her trike found abandoned in the Dollar Store parking lot, police complaints came in about a mini-menace stealing candy from babies at Lemontree Mall.
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