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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Mother arrested because 10 year old son walked alone to store
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:04:59 -0000 (UTC)
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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