Should This Be Considered Child Endangerment?

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9:06a, 11/16/24
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Mom gets arrested for letting her kid walk a mile to the store.

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9:13a, 11/16/24
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Given the facts available that is ridiculous. I doubt I would have allowed it but sure sounds like a reasonable decision.
I obviously have no idea the vibe in rural GA.
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9:14a, 11/16/24
I'm from a smallish town in East Arkansas and my friends and I would walk 2 or so miles to Wendy's all the time. We were around the same age. Nobody ever thought anything of it. Parents should be able to make these decisions without the law being involved.
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9:15a, 11/16/24
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We'd go 5-10 miles on our bike.
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9:16a, 11/16/24
If this lady could get up to a year in jail, my parents would have gotten the death penalty. When I was that age I once hitched a ride in the back of a stranger's pickup to visit a friend in the next town 14 miles away. My parents were pissed, not because of how I got there, but because I couldn't get a ride back and they had to come get me. This was in the mid-1960s.
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9:16a, 11/16/24
When I was that age, my buddies and I rode our bikes half across Texas.
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9:17a, 11/16/24
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I despise when people feel the need to virtue signal in competition to show how much "better" of a parent they are (read as doting/smothering/indulging/hyper-protective) to the extent that they promote or encourage authorities to go after those parents they feel are inadequately smotheringly protective.

Billions and billions of kid have walked a mile from home to do a chores or get somewhere in human history. That is the human normal, not the exception. And the vast majority of those walks have been uneventful. Odds of a mishap are vanishingly small. We just hear about every single one that happens anywhere today due to 24/7 media bombardment so we believe the world is much more dangerous day to day than it is.

Quit coddling children. They need to adventure, to learn, to grow. Overprotection makes them weak and helpless and harms them maybe for life. They neve learn to deal with adversity and know they can overcome challenges
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9:17a, 11/16/24
lololol


I rode miles away from home at 10 year old
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9:18a, 11/16/24
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As an 80s kid, this is laughable.
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9:18a, 11/16/24
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Given the facts in the article that is ****ing absurd. That is extreme over reach on the part of the police department. An 11 year old walked a mile? THE HORROR!!

We've become so soft.
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In reply to Squadron7 • 9:20a, 11/16/24
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Squadron7 said:
Mom gets arrested for letting her kid walk a mile to the store.

RIDICULOUS.

The Nanny State at work.
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In reply to Philip J Fry • 9:21a, 11/16/24
Philip J Fry said:
As an 80s kid, this is laughable.


how did we ever survive as Gen Xers. the good old days.
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9:24a, 11/16/24
The question is, who was the Karen that called the police? That person needs to be outed.
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9:24a, 11/16/24
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Good lord I grew up in The Woodlands and rode my bike over a miles to school in the mid 80s

It was FUN, not endangerment
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In reply to Squadron7 • 9:29a, 11/16/24
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Mom gets arrested for letting her kid walk a mile to the store.



I'd be suing the **** outnof anyone and everyone i could find.

This is ridiculous abuse of police authority and major govt overreach.

And, if I'm going to prison, I'm gonna find the *****ass Karen who called the cops and beat the **** out of them too.

You keep your overprotection of your children to yourself and keep your nose outta my ****ing business.

This clearly pisses me way off.

I from a moderately sized town in east Texas. We used to ride our bikes over 5 or 6 miles into town.

My best friend lived a mile away. Id walk a mile to his house every summer day (he had a pool) which required cutting through people's yards and hopping fences.

The gall that some lady(i presume because I do t believe a man would care) had to call the cops for this and the gall that some police officer decided to arrest the mother is mind numbing
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In reply to riverrataggie • 9:31a, 11/16/24
riverrataggie said:
We'd go 5-10 miles on our bike.
This my parents would have had a criminal record that ran to 10 pages. But that was the 60/70s and things were different.
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In reply to Squadron7 • 9:32a, 11/16/24
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What if the kid was running, training for a track meet? I guess moms suppose to follow in a car or on bike?
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9:36a, 11/16/24
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In the 70s, we would take a paper bag with us on our walk to the convenience store and pick up beer cans along the way. We lived along a busy farm-to-market road. After we collected 8-10 bags, Dad would take us to Reynolds Aluminum, and we'd have enough money for several more trips to the store. Pussification of America!
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9:40a, 11/16/24
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Now do the kids digging for Cobalt 14 hours a day.

Seriously, an entire legion of Karens were created by the Fauci virus. That whole exercise showed just how easy it would be, to have the citizens usher in communism. History.
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In reply to MelvinUdall • 9:43a, 11/16/24
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The question is, who was the Karen that called the police? That person needs to be outed.
This. Brownshirts should be ostracized.

And any law enforcement or justices that enable the issue.
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9:46a, 11/16/24
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The woman police officer sounds like the biggest **** in the world. I hope she sues the **** out of these police state wannabes.
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9:46a, 11/16/24
48 hour rule.

If there is nothing else, this is pretty bad. Whether or not you agree with this parent's decision, arresting them is an overreach.
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9:47a, 11/16/24
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no.
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9:47a, 11/16/24
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The mom said it's not illegal for a kid to walk to the store and the cop responds it is when they are 10 years old.

So according to the law, what is the age when it is legal for someone to walk to the store? This is laughable
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In reply to Tea Party • 9:50a, 11/16/24
Tea Party said:
MelvinUdall said:
The question is, who was the Karen that called the police? That person needs to be outed.
This. Brownshirts should be ostracized.

And any law enforcement or justices that enable the issue.


100%!!!! I get we live in a different time, I am an 80's kids and we would ride our bikes and walk long distances all of the time, as long as my parents knew, it was all good.
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9:50a, 11/16/24
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Unfortunately, the only avenue for suit is IF, IF, someone lied to the judge to get the arrest warrant.
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9:51a, 11/16/24
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My parents would have been arrested every single day of my life from age 5 to 10. Good grief.
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9:51a, 11/16/24
Listening to the police officers should enrage everyone.

They deserve harsh punishment.
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9:54a, 11/16/24
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Good mom. This is how it should be done. Best way for a kid to get outdoors and learn some responsibility. We are natural explorers.

That being said, I'm shocked that any mom would allow this today considering the decades of indoctrinated fear. Makes me think mom is on meth. However, I applaud her Dad-like parenting.
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Hormone blockers and porn would have been fine
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9:56a, 11/16/24
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The mom said she didn't know where her kid was. She thought he was somewhere on the property, Grandpa was around, but she did not place eyes on him before she took another kid to the doctor. She also purposely ignored calls from the Sheriff's Office when they called her about her son they found walking along the shoulder of the highway. The kid was also homeschooled and raised "free range".

Spidey sense tells me this kid pissed off someone in the community who vowed to call the Sheriff's next time the kid was wandering and Mom knew she was some kind of thin ice.
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 9:57a, 11/16/24
MouthBQ98 said:
I despise when people feel the need to virtue signal in competition to show how much "better" of a parent they are (read as doting/smothering/indulging/hyper-protective) to the extent that they promote or encourage authorities to go after those parents they feel are inadequately smotheringly protective.

Billions and billions of kid have walked a mile from home to do a chores or get somewhere in human history. That is the human normal, not the exception. And the vast majority of those walks have been uneventful. Odds of a mishap are vanishingly small. We just hear about every single one that happens anywhere today due to 24/7 media bombardment so we believe the world is much more dangerous day to day than it is.

Quit coddling children. They need to adventure, to learn, to grow. Overprotection makes them weak and helpless and harms them maybe for life. They neve learn to deal with adversity and know they can overcome challenges
Preach.
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In reply to Burrus86 • 9:58a, 11/16/24
Once I was told how it works. I loved collecting aluminum cans and the pull tabs. 70' and 80's. Anything aluminum. We would take our wagon with plastic trash bags and fill them up and take them to recycling.
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9:58a, 11/16/24
I used to walk 5 miles to school in the snow…uphill. Today, my parents would be given life sentences!
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In reply to HoustonAg2106 • 9:58a, 11/16/24
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HoustonAg2106 said:
The mom said it's not illegal for a kid to walk to the store and the cop responds it is when they are 10 years old.

So according to the law, what is the age when it is legal for someone to walk to the store? This is laughable


12. In Georgia they are allowed to be left at home alone from 10-12 at home no more then 2 hours. They can't be out and about.
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