I’m pretty sure all Of our parents would still be in jail
Mom arrested when son walked into town
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The wife who works at Child Protective Services said that is asinine.
That makes little sense. The mom should be rewarded for raising a trusted and responsible son.
Insane. Also totally wood smash that mom.
The officer really said out loud that it was against the law for a 10-year-old to walk to a store? My God.
On the surface the arrest seems ridiculous, but I'm curious about the route the boy took to get to town. I live a mile outside town which is an easy walk, but to get town you have to walk on the shoulder of a busy US highway most of the way. I could see people being concerned if a 10 year old was walking the route alone.
And this wasn't a spur of the moment knee jerk reaction arrest. They returned 5 hours later to place her under arrest which means the authorities had more than enough time to discuss/seek consultation. And yet they still concluded that she should go to jail.
Fast forward to now and they're willing to dismiss with some conditions. That tells me that they know they made a bad decision but are looking to save face.
Fast forward to now and they're willing to dismiss with some conditions. That tells me that they know they made a bad decision but are looking to save face.
My God... when I was 10 years old my parents told me to go outside and not come back until dinner time.
When my brother and I were driving him crazy, my dad used to tell us to go play in the road!
I found a little more about the story. It seems when she left to take the older son to the doctor she had no idea where the 10 year old was.
According to an incident report obtained by 11Alive, deputies saw the boy walking along Mineral Bluff Highway and Spur 60 to the Bee Hive gas station in town. The boy, when asked if he was OK, told the deputies yes. When asked if he needed help, he told deputies no. The boy told deputies that he was not in school because he was home-schooled and that his grandfather was at home, according to the incident report.
Deputies then tried to get in contact with Soren's mother, Brittany. After deputies tried calling Brittany once, she declined the call and asked the deputies, unbeknownst they had called, to text her. They called a second time, and she answered. In the incident report, deputies said Brittany seemed "very unsurprised or concerned (that he was alone)."
"It's not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road," Patterson told NBC News in an interview. "I wasn't terrified for him or scared for his safety."
Deputies said that Patterson told them that she was waiting for Soren to get in the car to head to the doctor's appointment for several minutes, but he never came, and she couldn't find him anywhere in the house, so she assumed he went to play in the woods. She never had a concern with his grandfather at home.
Fannin County deputies drove Soren back to the house down the road, and Brittany thought that was going to be the end of it. But little did she know it was just getting started.
Hours later, Fannin County deputies returned to the Patterson home with a warrant for the arrest for Brittany. She was being arrested and charged with reckless conduct.
When she was arrested, Brittany allegedly told deputies that she did not know how it was illegal for her child to walk to the store by himself when she was not at home and did not know where he was. According to the incident report, Patterson and her older children "found (the situation) to be a laughing matter, and (Brittany) could not comprehend why this was a serious issue."
Georgia mom arrested after 10-year-old son walks alone into town
Brittany Patterson was handcuffed in front of her children, arrested and booked into the Fannin County jail, where she had to post a $500 bond.
www.11alive.com
Yep. My parents would definitely be in jail. I was allowed to ride the bus into town with my friend when I was 8.
I walked to school when I was 6.
I walked to school when I was 6.
I found a little more about the story. It seems when she left to take the older son to the doctor she had no idea where the 10 year old was.
According to an incident report obtained by 11Alive, deputies saw the boy walking along Mineral Bluff Highway and Spur 60 to the Bee Hive gas station in town. The boy, when asked if he was OK, told the deputies yes. When asked if he needed help, he told deputies no. The boy told deputies that he was not in school because he was home-schooled and that his grandfather was at home, according to the incident report.
Deputies then tried to get in contact with Soren's mother, Brittany. After deputies tried calling Brittany once, she declined the call and asked the deputies, unbeknownst they had called, to text her. They called a second time, and she answered. In the incident report, deputies said Brittany seemed "very unsurprised or concerned (that he was alone)."
"It's not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road," Patterson told NBC News in an interview. "I wasn't terrified for him or scared for his safety."
Deputies said that Patterson told them that she was waiting for Soren to get in the car to head to the doctor's appointment for several minutes, but he never came, and she couldn't find him anywhere in the house, so she assumed he went to play in the woods. She never had a concern with his grandfather at home.
Fannin County deputies drove Soren back to the house down the road, and Brittany thought that was going to be the end of it. But little did she know it was just getting started.
Hours later, Fannin County deputies returned to the Patterson home with a warrant for the arrest for Brittany. She was being arrested and charged with reckless conduct.
When she was arrested, Brittany allegedly told deputies that she did not know how it was illegal for her child to walk to the store by himself when she was not at home and did not know where he was. According to the incident report, Patterson and her older children "found (the situation) to be a laughing matter, and (Brittany) could not comprehend why this was a serious issue."
Georgia mom arrested after 10-year-old son walks alone into town
Brittany Patterson was handcuffed in front of her children, arrested and booked into the Fannin County jail, where she had to post a $500 bond.
"The boy, when asked if he was OK, told the deputies yes. When asked if he needed help, he told deputies no."
This should have been the end of it.
What if he was a runaway? Kids don't always tell the truth. He hadn't told anyone in his family where he was going.
This is ridiculous. There has to be more to the story than cops saw the kid walking on the road and called the Mom and then 5 hours later decided to arrest the Mom.
She either broke the district attorney's heart or she screwed the da's husband
She either broke the district attorney's heart or she screwed the da's husband
Even if that's the case (police didn't believe him) it doesn't justify the mom being arrested. Maybe a DCF visit at most?
I agree it was probably more of a case for child protective services than law enforcement. I have a feeling this family may have a reputation in town about the children running wild. The population of Mineral Bluff is 370, basically a wide spot in the road where everybody knows everybody.
So other than meth, not exactly a high-crime area.
The bigger government gets, the more it governs to the least common denominator. Are there 10 year olds that can't and shouldn't be allowed to walk a mile on their own? Sure, but that shouldn't hinder the ones that can and should.
Ok. After they investigated to the point that they knew nothing weird was going on, that should have been the end of it.
They went back hours later to make an arrest.
Question for parents: If your 10 year old left the house and didn't tell anyone where he/she was going would you respond to a call from the police that it was no big deal? Wouldn't you at least express some anger about the child not asking permission /informing an adult where they were going?
In my opinion the mother was a little too casual about not having a clue where her child was? It's 2024 not 1974, we did a lot of things as kids back then that would get our parents in trouble now.
To be fair - there's alot of really silly laws out there, so it wouldn't totally shock me if that was true.
well heck, if a 10 yr child said he's okay...
Like many others when I was young when we went out to play we could literally be anywhere in town. When I was 12 an air show came to town and my best friend and I paid 2 cents a pound and we got to take about a 5-10 minute flight circling around town and my parents had no idea. Pilot would likely face charges today.
Can you imagine what those cops would have done to this kid's parents
But he wasn’t. She should never have been arrested over this.
Respectfully, we don't know nearly enough about this lady to say that. If this was a one-off, sure. If there's a history of leaving kids unsupervised...that changes things doesn't it?
Fvcking facts and everyone is acting like it wasn't different times when us Gen Xers grew up
You seriously going to argue that the conditions in which kids are raised today are the same as when you were raised back in the day?
I don't think the Florida Department of Children and Families has jurisdiction in Georgia.
