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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Mother arrested because 10 year old son walked alone to store Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:04:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: <vpfrgr$kfon$1@dont-email.me> References: <vpe92m$c6c5$2@dont-email.me> <qsblrjhvg0e5di2d3n3ir2l7soh0vq4jj9@4ax.com> <vpfnsa$jg3o$3@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:05:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="09195f94736b8022f229fd2541c06f1b"; logging-data="671511"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kIokm9kISwnZpjObxJuzG1u0n/HSqO3k=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:NjPL368aTjlJYnIqA1zIGTjqDns= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 4794 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote: >Feb 22, 2025 at 9:18:41 PM PST, shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>: >>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:44:06 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>>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. >>I guess I broke the law as a child more than once. >All the time. We weren't just walking down to the store, either. >On a typical Saturday, we would set out on our bikes first thing in the >morning and be gone all day. (We had to be gone before dad got going or we'd >end up having to do yard work all day.) Our rule was we had to be home for >dinner before the streetlights came on, but for the rest of the day, our >parents had no idea where we were while we were out in the woods miles away >riding the trails, building forts, playing ball, etc. Today, that would be >(absurdly) chargeable as criminal child abuse/neglect. Yeah. My mother just expected us to return "eventually", but don't be late for dinner. I rode my bike all over the place. I once rode all the north on Sheridan Road, which makes it through Kenosha but ends at the south boundary of Racine. I crossed the Cheddar Curtain and lived to tell about it! >The frequent response is, "Well, we live in more dangerous times now", but >that's completely false. Per the FBI crime statistics, it's actually much >*safer* now in terms of child assault/abduction/murder than it was in the >"good old days" of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Is this specific to being kidnapped by strangers or all child abductions? I thought abductions by non-custodial parents were steady. As far as adults in position of authority over the child, or a relative or adult known to the family, I have no idea. But one aspect of times are more dangerous today, well, if parents drive children to and from school at a school that was intended to have child walk, the few children who walk are in danger of being struck by the SUVs of the parents driving their kids. >When I was 10 years old, I had >some weirdo pull up beside me in a black van while I was out riding my bike >and ask if I wanted a ride and kept trying to convince me to come with him. I >told him to get lost and when he kept following me, rode toward the police >station. Once he realized where I was going, he sped away. >The difference is that thanks to 24-hour cable news, now you hear about cases >you never would have heard about back then. During those times, there were >essentially only three channels on TV-- ABC, CBS, and NBC-- and they had only >30 minutes per day to bring you the news from the whole world. So the story >about a little girl that got abducted in Idaho was pushed aside for a story >about the latest incursion by the Soviet Union or the political battles in >Congress. Then came CNN and 24-hour news and rather than have to cut stories, >they were struggling to fill the schedule all day, every single day, and >suddenly you started hearing about crimes you never knew had been occurring >the entire time and the perception was that suddenly there was an explosion of >child molesters out there, hiding behind every shrub and tree trunk. >>>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