Re: Mother arrested because 10 year old son walked alone to store

On 2025-02-28 04:49:48 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:44:06 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

 Three months ago, a mother took one child to the doctor. While at the
doctor, her 10 year old son, left home alone, walked a mile to the
store. Now, he didn't have her permission but it wasn't a big deal for
the mother as her son hadn't gone anywhere he wasn't familiar with.
 The cop that showed up at the house arrested her for reckless
endangerment, stating that it was illegal (in Georgia) for a 10 year old
to walk alone.
 Finally, prosecutors decide not to proceed but charges are dropped
WITHOUT prejudice, which allows them to be refiled again within two
years of the incident.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CKus1J1DU

 Which is bizarre since in my student days long ago I routinely walked
the mile to school in my grades 1-3 years. (For grades 4-7 I took the
bus as I was switched to a special 'gifted' enrichment program that is
today out of fashion even though dropout rates amongst the top 2% of
kids is considerably higher than the average school population)

It's not really that he walked to the store alone, but that his mother, nor the grandfather who was supposedly looking after him, didn't know he had walked to the store alone.
Of course, most parents never know what their kids are doing most of the time, unless they are "helicopter parents" who always keep their kids within sight.
There are some sub-teen kids in New Zealand that are involved in ram raids of stores at 1:00*am*. For example:
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sandringham-burglary-11-yr-old-the-alleged-driver-in-early-morning-ram-raid/XOEXFUWMRE6WO2GPWSQGAFZ7OA/>