Mom arrested for letting 10-year-old walk alone – IOTW Report

Mom arrested for letting 10-year-old walk alone

BPR: A Georgia mother of four was arrested late last month for allowing her then-10-year-old son to walk outside alone.

The drama began to unfold around noon on Oct. 30th when mother Brittany Patterson drove her eldest son to a medical appointment, according to Reason magazine.

She had intended to take her youngest son, then-10-year-old Soren, with her as well but couldn’t find him at the time.

“I figured he was in the woods, or at grandma’s house,” Patterson, who lives on 16 acres of land with her father and husband, later recalled to Reason magazine. read more

34 Comments on Mom arrested for letting 10-year-old walk alone

  1. “The cops subsequently deployed a female sheriff to pick Soren up and contact his mother by phone.”

    I think I just spotted the problem.

    The most important attribute all cops must possess is good judgment.

    Good oral and written communication skills, compassion, the ability to think outside the box, and a grounded measured temperament, all of these are important as well but without good judgment you cannot do your job effectively and you are a lawsuit just waiting to happen.

    Even without jumping through all these ridiculous hoops of dog tagging her kids, I doubt the DA will file any charges against her, but public condemnation must rain down heavily on this department and this stupid woman deputy needs to find another line of work.

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  2. At 10 I was allowed to ride my bike one and a half miles down our country road to visit my nearest classmate to play. Also to go even farther, but I always came back in reasonable time. I’m only child and parents were very protective! Neighbor’s dogs were the scariest, get going fast as I could then got my legs up! That bike most prized possession.

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  3. When I was 10, I was driving farm tractors on the gravel roads from different pieces of land my dad had. I pulled self-unloading wagons, then did the unloading into the silos. This TDS is making these Progs more nuts with each passing day.

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  4. At 10 I and my friends were swimming in the St. Clair river, riding our bikes 9 miles to Beards Hills to camp overnight with hatchets, knives and matches.
    These people would have give our parents life sentences.

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  5. At age nine, a school friend and I circumnavigated the civilian part of Coronado CA on our Flexies¹. This was a totally unremarkable event to the two of us and to our families. If anyone had questioned it, the questioner would have been the weirdo.

    A few years later, age 11 or so in about 1960, I rode my bicycle anywhere I wanted in the residential areas of north Buenos Aires; Olivos, La Lucila, Martinez, Acasuso, San Isidro. Perfectly normal activity.

    Side note: One evening my parents were having a cocktail party and ran out of gin (“ginebra”). My mother handed 11-year-old me a string bag and a handful of pesos and told me to go up to the almacén and bring back a bottle. So I did. Again, no questions asked or notice taken, in particular by the lady running the store.

    1. The Flexy was made by the folks who made Flexible Flyer sleds but these had wheels instead of runners. They were popular for a while in Southern Cal. in the 50s.

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  6. When I was ten, half the town went to see Goldwater at the local college football stadium. I got separated/dumped by my older brother. I managed to walk several miles alone to our home. No big deal!

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  7. What, no swat team? Did they get the battering ram out of the closet?
    There are police and sheriffs that would never hold a position of authority.
    Now they have authority and a gun.

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  8. And then there were the Abernathy boys…
    https://www.405magazine.com/the-astounding-adventures-of-the-abernathy-boys/

    I recall walking around Santa Monica by myself when I was 9 or 10. A guy driving the other direction made eye contact with me, made a U-turn. I crossed the street and went into a Jack in the Box. There were dangers, but we were savvy enough to deal with them.
    I walked to the beach with a friend nearly every summer day during junior high. No adults chaperoning dozens of kids. Would walk another mile to Jack in the Box, 2 cheeseburgers and a milk for $1.00 (including sales tax).

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  9. They pretty much don’t make parents like they used or cops.
    I just read a story the other day of two Brothers around 10 years old crossing the country and other amazing adventures with their parents consent on their motorcycle. I think it was around 1910 or 1915, don’t remember for sure but there were pictures of them on bike.

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  10. We had field cars at age 10, drove tractors with hay wagons. Shot woodchucks, trapped muskrats for furs. Played with rail road torpedoes on the 4th of July. If we were not home for supper all hell rained down. Safety tip: Never hit a railroad torpedo with a sledge hammer. When I was 14 the game warden took me home for hunting deer without a licence. America has fallen a long long way.

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  11. Holy crap, when I was 9, I used to walk 8 or 10 blocks to town, (Anacortes, Wa.) and buy cigarettes for MOM with a hand written note from a street vendor.

    Brothers and myself used to climb all over ‘Cap Santa’ without parental consent.

    We used to fish off the pier for ‘dog fish’, we went up and down the coast of the bay exploring.

    Neighbor friend and myself took his father’s 12 gauge shotgun out on the county road and killed a few birds at the age of 11. His father knew of our access to the weapons.

    Today’s kids are pussies.

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  12. At age 10 we would scour the neighborhood looking for pop bottles to turn in for bubble gum money. Then we went to the corner market to turn them in. No parents around. I was babysitting neighborhood kids at age 11.

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  13. “The most important attribute all cops must possess is good judgment.”

    Exactly. And the de fund the fuz movement has compounded the problem. What worth while individual now want a career in law enforcement? None of them. So departments have had to lower their standards and this is what you end up with.

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  14. When I was 5 back in 1958 after my mom showed me how to get to my kindergarten which was a half mile away from our house on Spokane’s S. hill nearby Cannon Hill Park, I walked by myself to kindergarten. Thru Cannon Hill Park and in the spring, I stopped at the pond and brought pollywogs home as small pets. My kindergarten was in the basement of a large house on 14th Ave. where my wife later grew up in. I also walked to Cub Scout meetings after dark a few blocks away from my house when I was about 7 or 8 years old. My 3 younger brothers and I were free range kids and enjoyed every minute of it and none of us ever had a problem with it. I walked pretty much everywhere by myself and especially when my grandfather wouldn’t take me to my cousin’s house in Dalton Gardens, Idaho a mile away from where my grandparents lived, he told me to use my shanks mares and just hoof it. In the summer we would walk a mile or more over the hill to Honeysuckle beach on Hayden Lake to go swimming by ourselves and back to my uncle’s house. Walking never killed anyone, and it was good exercise. And I still love to walk but getting older it’s a little harder to do now. My first job was delivering morning newspapers 7 days a week before school starting at about 4 to 4:30 in the morning when I was 13 in 1966.

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  15. Like Geoff the Aardvark I also walked to Kindergarten, in the snows of Wisconsin. On Saturdays my older brother (8) and I would take our allowance, walk downtown by ourselves to theater or 5 & dime. Slightly older we always rode bikes to baseball practice over mile away. No big deal.

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  16. Myself, one of my brothers and some of the neighborhood boys would walk late at night in the late 60’s, during the summer generally after midnight sneaking out of the house while our parents were asleep and walk down the bluff a mile or so away from our houses to go down to Hangman Creek (Latah Creek) to catch frogs and crawdads as well as bull snakes. We never got caught and were back before our parents woke up and if the Police would’ve stopped us and wondered what we were doing out so late at night they would have just taken us home and probably laughed at us. There is a myth that 2 of my brothers, another friend and a neighbor girl walked over the bluff late one night buck naked without being seen in their early teens, I could never verify it, nothing happened just some fun and skinny dipping in the creek. If the neighbor girl’s dad had ever found out he would’ve skinned them alive, he was the bad dad in the neighborhood who also didn’t like guns and wouldn’t let my neighbor friend to have one or go hunting with us.

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  17. geoff the aardvark
    Monday, 18 November 2024, 13:11 at 1:11 pm
    “Yikes, SNS that dyke sheriff looks like someone that you don’t want to mess with.”

    …shes only dangerous if youre a White Straight Male or oppose abortion, otherwise shes pretty happy to sit back on her considerable hams and let the mayhem unfold…

    https://mcguffeyforsheriff.com/about-charmaine/justice-reform

    …makes me sad, really, I repped for that county for a decade and lived there for four x ten +, so its pretty disgusting to see what the Commies have done to it in just a very short time…

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