Attorney says fight isn’t over.
11 Alive- A Georgia mother was arrested in October after her 10-year-old son walked into town alone. Her warrant was recently dismissed, but her attorney states that the legal battle isn’t over.
Brittany “Brit” Patterson was charged with reckless conduct on Oct. 30. While she was attending to another child, her son, Soren, walked less than a mile from their Fannin County home to a gas station. Deputies returned the boy home and later arrested Patterson, citing her alleged lack of concern for his safety.
Shortly after the incident, she refused to sign a sheriff’s office safety plan requiring her children to remain under constant supervision, arguing that it infringes on her parental rights.
On Feb. 7, Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Frank Wood filed a warrant dismissal in court.
According to Patterson’s attorney, David DeLugas, Wood did not notify Patterson or her legal counsel before filing the dismissal.
Court documents stated that after the district attorney reviewed incident reports, body camera footage, witness statements and the warrant, the state decided not to continue the case. more here
Beaver and Larry walked into town and spent the whole day there on many episodes.
Each and every elected, appointed or commissioned individual should be dismissed and barred from ever being in any way, shape or form in any government job or position ever again
I’ll say it for all of us. We left the house in the morning, alone or with our friends. And didn’t come home until dinner time. We explored, played, made forts, rode bikes, climbed hills and trees. We learned about the world. What happened that this is no longer true?
@ Camaro Denny Sunday, 23 February 2025, 11:42 at 11:42 am,
The infernal nanny state.
When I was 10, if it wasn’t a school day, it wasn’t unusual for me to disappear with a friend or two for the whole day. I’d usually go home for lunch but even that wasn’t always the case. All my friends behaved in like manner. No one gave it a second thought.
The cops and the DA here deserve harsh sanctions at a minimum.
I was still tapping away while @Camaro Denny was posting. Thank you, you did indeed say it for me and all of us.
At 10 I was cooking my own dinner, letting myself into our house, and otherwise being quite independent. I certainly went anywhere on my bike with no adult 3VER questioning my abilities, etc. So glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Mom raised an independent free thinker. Of course the government would be threatened by that.
My mom didn’t worry about me unless I was home.
“While she was attending to another child, her son, Soren, walked less than a mile from their Fannin County home to a gas station.”
The horror. The three mile round-trip I had walking to school every day during high school along a road used by logging trucks pales in comparison.
Hanging around the house on a nice day usually got the adults looking for ‘chores’ for me to do. Hint hint.
I remember when I was 10 and visiting with my cousins, my aunt would give us a dollar or two and we’d take the bus downtown to see a Saturday matinee. We’d squeeze that dollar hard, maybe get some popcorn and an orangeade drink.
When I was 5 we lived in Minneapolis. I had 4 younger brothers and my mom’s hands were full. I remember I had to walk to the dentist office. Granted it was only a couple blocks away but it routine back then.
The person behind screwing this woman over is completely unneeded in that area if the person spends this much time, energy, and resources on something so fantastically fucking stupid as trying to make a convicted criminal out of a woman who let her ten year old walk a mile unattended. JFHC… Who is the asshole behind all this. They have a name. They have an address. They probably hold an elected office.
I guess there is no such thing as Latchkey Kids anymore?
As I said before on this site; my friend and I would take his father’s shotgun and shoot birds for fun, unsupervised and both of us only eleven years of age.
That was our childhood — over a half century ago. Today’s kids are in danger of being snagged by the criminals those same sheriffs and DAs KNOW are out there — because they’re the ones who released them without bail.
It’s a tightrope parents and their kids traverse these days. We want them to experience the freedom and autonomy of our youth, but the risks are so much greater and it only takes a split second to grab a kid and disappear. You’ve all seen the security camera footage. Would you really take that chance with your own kids? There’s too many people on drugs looking for something (someone) to steal and sell in this country.
I would walk to kindergarten thru Cannon Hill Park on Spokane’s S. hill after my mom showed me the way about a half mile or so back in 1958/59 when I was 5 and 6 years old. Nothing ever happened, I also would walk to Cub scout meetings a few blocks away from our house after dark about 1960/61 and it was great being a free-range kid that my parents trusted back then. Where I went to kindergarten turned out to be a large older house that my wife grew up in later during the 60’s and 70’s. And my future wife and her large Catholic family also lived about a block away from us when we moved back to Spokane from Ephrata, Wash. in the fall of 1964 when I was in 6th grade. I didn’t know her then, but my youngest brother played with her younger brother in a little wooded area just up the street. So, I guess it was meant to be, and I ended up marrying the girl who almost lived next door before they moved to their larger house in 1965. My father-in-law paid less than $20,000 for that house which was a very large stately older house built by a famous Spokane architect in the early 1900’s that was big enough for them to raise 9 kids. They sold the house in 1979 and moved to another nice split-level house because most of the kids were grown by then and had moved out and now, their older house is on the national historic register has been completely remodeled and recently sold for $750,000 dollars. It was far to easier to raise a family then and much cheaper than it is now. Younger families don’t know what they’re missing nowadays.
Did they think we were kidding when we said we walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways?
keep your dindu ass out, bitches – it’s noymfb
Too many freaks and criminals on the street…. and in political office now.
I walked to school on my own since kindergarten.
By age 10 I was the neighborhood babysitter.
By today’s insane standards, every parent during my childhood would have been criminally negligent.