Lock her up?

[Merlin99]

10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest.​

A Georgia mother was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son — all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home, officials said.

My mom would have gotten the death penalty for some of the places I went or some of the things I did if this is a lock upable offense. Our walk to school was longer.

10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest

Brittany Patterson, 41, said she was shocked that her son's stroll could lead to a criminal charge.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[TPD]

We are raising a bunch of pussies in this country! Kids don’t need parental permission for sex change but can’t walk a mile from home without hand holding. This crap pisses me off!

 

[vraiblonde]

GenX here and our moms never knew where we were. In the summer we hit the door after breakfast and they didn't see us again until the streetlights went on. If it was under a mile we didn't even get bus service, we walked to school. Somehow we survived.

 

[WingsOfGold]

So my walks from Linthicum to Ferndale on the RR tracks would have been a felony?

 

[Kinnakeet]

GenX here and our moms never knew where we were. In the summer we hit the door after breakfast and they didn't see us again until the streetlights went on. If it was under a mile we didn't even get bus service, we walked to school. Somehow we survived.

If my Mom needed me she either yelled out the front door or waited till I got home to inform me of what ever it was she had to say
A mile away crap that was everyday for us and more

 

[Gilligan]

I was routinely pedaling my bike to the general store 5 miles away by the time I was 8. Good grief.

 

[RareBreed]

GenX here and our moms never knew where we were. In the summer we hit the door after breakfast and they didn't see us again until the streetlights went on. If it was under a mile we didn't even get bus service, we walked to school. Somehow we survived.

Me too and I raised my two boys the same way I was raised. Some parents gave us flack for it but both turned out to be responsible hard working 20-somethings. No regrets.

 

[rio]

When I stayed on my grandparents farm during summers I could be a mile away and still on their property! At home, there was a pack of kids that roamed the hood. We knew the boundaries set by our parents, and sometimes we stuck to them.

 

[vraiblonde]

We knew the boundaries set by our parents, and sometimes we stuck to them.

 

[RoseRed]

Heck, we used to ride the county transit busses all over the place for a dime. Santa Clara County is quite large.

 

[thurley42]

I used to ride by bike a good 3 or 4 miles away when i was that age.....soft af

 

[Kyle]

Yeah, when I was a kid, a bunch of us would occasionally take to exploring. Following wood lines or Sligo Creek into Montgomery county or as far west as the Anacostia.

our parents had no idea where we were.

We weren’t fragile.

 

[SamSpade]

Just to add my voice - damn. I went a lot further, and a lot younger. By the time I was 12, it was more like five miles at a time.

Plus I had a paper route that had me a couple miles away - in knee deep snow.

What is wrong with this country?

 

[Sneakers]

our parents had no idea where we were.

Mine could pretty much figure out where I was. That "mommy network" ya know... If I wasn't at my buddies place, I was on the beach, probably with my buddy! Fishing at sunrise, exploring, swimming and sun worshiping after lunch, home for dinner, back to the beach for sunset fishing. If I got hungry I either cooked something I caught or found a supply of muscles and steamed them in salt water. In the winter I'd be out in the woods somewhere just enjoying being outside.

 

[Tech]

At five, was bitten by a friend's dog who lived about 1/4 mile away in the city. First words out of mom after seeing my arm when I came home. "What did you do to that dog?"

 

[Grumpy]

Freedom came at 9 when my mother let me ride my bike to a friends house that was 3 miles away, after that I rode my bike everywhere. When I was 10, 2 of my friends and I would ride into DC with my father and roam the mall and museums all day, then take a bus back home. Of course the bus stop was a couple miles from our homes and we would walk home. At 15, me and a friend took drivers ed in summer school, for some reason the class was cancelled one day so we called our parents and said we were going to a friend's house and would be home later..We hitchhiked to OC, spent about 3 hours on the boardwalk and then hitchhiked home, got home around 8pm..lol

 

[ontheriver]

I was born in Providence. A really stinky mill town. At about 7 I would go on "adventures". There was a dumping ground for super cheap "jewelry".
Not household waste. Many times I went alone or with one girlfriend who lived in the same "projects". My mother never knew about it, but like so many others if I was home when the streetlights came on, no questions asked.

 

[CPUSA]

I was routinely pedaling my bike to the general store 5 miles away by the time I was 8. Good grief.

To get dad a pack of smokes & a six pack...

 

[somdwatch]

After reading it, I don't think there's any laws broken by her or her son. Who says the state "signs a form that outlines a safety plan guaranteeing that her children would always be under a watchful eye".

I think she'll win this in court easily.

 

[Hijinx]

A 2 year old can get out of sight before you know it. A ten year old is better off out of sight.
I was driving the farm tractor at ten and roaming Church Swamp when I wasn't doing that.