A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.
Nevertheless, she called the police.
So it was all that Karen’s fault…
Fair, but the parent still neglected the child.
That’s not what neglect is
Sure.
Not even slightly.
In what way?
Help me understand what your definition of neglect is.
Abandonment is neglect.
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Why aren’t the kids going outside anymore lol
What the actual hell is wrong with… Ah wait, its USA so why am I even surprised…
The land of the “free”
Hey ketchup is free practically everywhere
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They hate children and walking wich is why they all fat and need cars. This isn’t about her being a women.
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Both the sheriff and the mother involved were women.
your kid goes for a walk? believe it or not, straight to jail.
“I will not sign,” she says.
Very good idea. I wouldn’t sign anything.
Btw, what did they even charge her with? I mean, don’t you have to commit some crime in order to be detained?
The ADA hasn’t decided how hard to push it yet, but she was arrested for reckless conduct:
A person who causes bodily harm to or endangers the bodily safety of another person by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his or her act or omission will cause harm or endanger the safety of the other person and the disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation is guilty of a misdemeanor.
“I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” she says.
The sheriff disagreed.
“She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or ‘anything’ could have happened,” recalls Patterson.
Even if his mother was walking there too, it’s not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She’d just be some extra mass to fling.
Kidnappings – and a number of other serious crimes – are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.
kagis
There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.
Even more lopsided than I’d expected.
And as for “anything” happening, I’d imagine that “anything” could have happened at home, too.
Gen-X reading this.
Now that is a vintage meme
In Japan I saw like 5 year olds taking the morning train by themselves to school
When I grew up in the 80s I had a bike when I was 7, my best friend was 8 and also had a bike, and we just cruised around town all day together having adventures and avoiding the cigarette smoking 9 year olds who had bigger bikes.
I grew up on 10 acres in the country in the 90’s/early 00’s. My mom would literally lock my younger brother and me out of the house to get us to spend time outside and so she could get some work done uninterrupted.
You bet we’d be foraging through the woods, going for 10+ mile bike rides, skipping rocks at the river, catching garter snakes, etc, all day with no supervision and we never had a single problem. We were raised to watch out for “stranger danger” and to let my parents know what we were doing in general, and that was enough.
Land of the free.
I used to walk all over my home town (and around my first home’s block) starting at age 5. Like, the fuck is this?
You’re going to jail
Oh fuck. Oh shit. Feet don’t fail me now!
Edit: Nope. I’m too fat and out of shape after neglecting myself from nearly 3 decades of depression. Just give me the cuffs. I’ll put 'em on myself.
When I was around 3 years old, me and my not much older brother decided to walk across town, where our mum was visiting relatives.
I was missing mummy, which was technically not an emergency, for which we were supposed to phone those relatives.
We had been raised very well, you see. 🙃What the fuck.
While I’m a big parental rights fan I actually tentatively am siding with the state on this one.
Patterson had driven her eldest son to a medical appointment. Her youngest son, 11-year-old Soren, intended to come along but wasn’t around when it was time to leave.
It’s one thing to intentionally raise your child in a free-range way, I think that should be allowed to a certain degree. It’s a completely different thing to neglect your child by driving away from your home after you can’t find him at the house and you don’t know where he is.
This is one of the problems that liberals create for themselves which cause the middle ground people to hate them. The liberals go too far. (I have no idea what I’m classified as - right leaning liberal, left leaning independent, or whatever.) The left wing needs to stay out of how parents raise their children, except for cases of abuse. This isn’t abuse. I’ve personally asked social workers, who were patients of mine, if the number of cases of child abductions have risen and every one of them have said no. It just appears that way due to our immediate access to news, social media, and Amber alerts. I would take off on my bike Saturday mornings. I would be away from home all day. I just had to be hone before the street lights came on.
I really fear for the family lives of folks living in liberal strongholds like Georgia.
I don’t get you US americans with your political stuff, your terminology seems to be all over the place. Today democrats are libertarian, next day it’s the republicans. This is literally authoritarianism at play by definition, their liberties are taken away. And where does the evil left come from, that state seems to be run by Republicans, i.e. extreme rightwing.
I mean, ever since your election the whole world knows your politics is broken beyond repair, but this is still bloody confusing to read.
LOL. Yes. I totally agree. That’s why I said that even I don’t know what to call myself. People question me on my views and I’ve been called everything from a tree hugging hippie to one step away from being an authoritarian. Who freaking knows. I’m for everyone minding their own business and your rights end when they start to step on mine. Marry whomever you want - that is of age, dress how you like, read whatever you like, do whatever you want to your own body, and don’t try to dictate your beliefs to me. The slow burn of our country started a few administrations ago. People are just now starting seeing the smoke today.
