Posted on 06/15/2015 8:22:37 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Two Florida parents were hit with felony neglect charges after their 11-year-old son was reportedly playing alone in the backyard for an hour and a half.
According to his mother, the boy arrived home before his parents and was locked out of the house, so he shot some hoops in the yard until they arrived.
A neighbor saw the child outside alone and called the local police. When his mother and father arrived home, they were met by a police officer, who arrested them for child negligence.
Robert Bianchi and Steve Raiser joined Clayton Morris on "Fox and Friends Weekend" to debate whether these charges are excessive.
"He didn't know where his parents were. He was locked out of his house. And he didn't have access to emergency services, shelter, food, things like that," Bianchi said.
Raiser countered that there was no danger from the neglect and felony charges may actually cause more damage in this case.
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Uhm? A+1
The “neighbor” would have a series of unexplained, bizarre, and tragic accidents occurring on or about their property if it was me.
The kid should have been provided a key for the house. But felony charges?? One day my sons teacher sent him on the bus home on the wrong day instead of to after school day care. My son new it was the wrong day but she sent him anyway. We weren’t home so he went to our neighbors house and called us. Seriously wtf these things happen.
The nosey neighbor should be put in the public stocks with about 6 bushels of rotten tomatoes nearby. When this case is settled, the family should move or the neighbor will be snooping on them 24/7 and turning them in at every chance.
Apparently the neighbor thinks an eleven year old needs to be kept on a leash.
Welcome to the new Amerika where your neighbors are informants to the STASSI local police. I know which direction I'd place "front toward enemy" (if I had any of course)
Used to be that a neighbour would tell the boy if he needed anything before his folks got home, all he had to do is ask. Then offer him something to eat and check the odd time to make sure he’s ok.
The parents could have been involved in an accident, or had a sudden illness or emergency. A good neighbour would consider that and be helpful.
I can hardly believe this story, from the standpoint of a child being in his own yard. A nosy neighbor who knew that child lived there, called the police because a child was in his own yard? This sound so unbelievable.
Are we the only ones who think the neighbor should be taught long distance swimming? (ie throw them in 40 miles offshore)
THESE things need to be rejected and fought
I don't care if there IS a frikkin' law ..... somewhere along the line the fascists must be stopped .....
Let THEM hit a brick wall.
My parents would have been in prison long ago if that same PC had existed in my childhood.
If it had been this way in the 70’s my parents would be serving eight consecutive life sentences.
From the article:
“He had no bathroom, but the responding officer found our yard good enough to relieve himself in while our son sat in a police car alone.”
The police state has no respect for private property.
Good grief. At 11 myself and the kid who lived across the highway would spend hours wandering through the woods, shooting at water snakes in the swamp with our bb guns from up on the railroad tracks, and bombing minnows in a small creek with cherry bombs. We’d head back at mid-day for dinner and then go back out for more exploring, all by ourselves!
We were also allowed to have firecracker fights and even go in the back yard and shoot at blue jays circling the persimmon tree with my .410. Enough to give a liberal a heart attack.
“If it had been this way in the 70’s my parents would be serving eight consecutive life sentences.”
My parents’ activities would definitely have been criminalized. They smoked in the car, let us bike without a helmet....and WOULDN’T LET US IN THE HOUSE during the summer, other than to eat lunch. Every one of these seemingly normal things has now been criminalized.
No wonder kids just play video games all day. Parents can’t take them places in the car, without buying a car seat for a 5 year old and putting out their smokes. Its child abuse to let them ride a bike anywhere but the driveway, complete with helmet and kneepads, and if they play outside too long, the police may be called.
I have posted similar comments on other threads with this theme. I probably stretched the rubber band so far out there that they would have thrown my parents up under the jailhouse. We lived in two different houses over my childhood years, the 1960s, that were 2-3 blocks from the largest park in that town of about 12,000 people. My sister and I regularly rode bikes over there, accompanied by our dog, a herding mixed breed. We spent hours over there with never a problem. Alternatively, I’d take a basketball to a neighbor’s driveway to shoot hoops unaccompanied. Again, no problem and no nosy neighbors. I guess I just don’t get people these days.
Where in Florida did this happen?
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