Posted on 06/12/2015 8:21:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don't know if these horror stories about parents being arrested for allowing their kids to play unsupervised are becoming more numerous or if we're just hearing about them more often because of social media.
But it's hardly relevant to a couple in Florida who found themselves arrested and charged with felony neglect when they couldn't get home in time after work to take care of their 11-year-old son.
One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I'll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn't have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested for negligence.
They were put in handcuffs, strip searched, fingerprinted, and held overnight in jail.
It would be a month before their sons—the 11-year-old and his 4-year-old brother—were allowed home again. Only after the eldest spoke up and begged a judge to give him back to his parents did the situation improve.
I spoke with Cindy about her family’s horrible ordeal.
"My older one was the so-called 'victim,'" she said during a phone interview. But since she and her husband were charged with felony neglect, the younger boy had to be removed from the home, too.
Here is the law: "A person who willfully or by culpable negligence neglects a child without causing great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement to the child commits a felony of the third degree."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oh, for cryin’ out loud...
Just wait till they tell you as parents you are responsible for providing a baby sitter till the age of 26!!!!!! please note no SARC tag!!
“a baby sitter till the age of 26!!!!!!”
Actually, that’s not a bad idea, ha ha. Could prevent a lot of trouble with young people.
The government knows better than the parents on how to care for your children.
Next is to pressure the children to vigorously report their parents for such “abuse”.
Maybe they should have a talk with their neighbor.
Was actually referring to the fact your “children” can stay on your insurance till 26.
A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested for negligence.
Well, if the cops arrested them, they MUST have been doing something wrong. </FRcopsucker>
Like with a baseball bat.
Back in the day the neighbor would have just kept an eye on us to make sure we were OK or we would have known the neighbor well enough to be invited over for an after school snack until the parents got home.
Being locked out was just one of those things.
I had access to a 12 foot boat with a 7.5hp outboard.
I’ll be called racist for saying this, but why is this only happening to whom I assume are white parents? Is it nosy neighbors who report them??
I live in an oil patch town with lots of Mexican families, adults who barely speak English, and their kids little or big, run free, play in streets, or playgrounds with no supervision. Or maybe a toddler watched by a 7 or 8 year old.
Yet I do not hear of this occurring with minorities.
Maybe the cop should be transferred to someplace dangerous.
11 years old, WOW, they should have put my parents to death as I was driving a tractor unsupervised on the farm at that age...
The Weekly Standard tells us to be cautious about this story as it might be a hoax
SOURCE: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/forgetting-lesson-uvarolling-stone-hoax_969898.html
EXCERPT:
Do we know if Cindy or her husband had a history of trouble with Child Protective Services? DeLugas said he didn’t specifically ask Cindy’s lawyer that question, but assumed her lawyer would have shared that information with him. “I did not see any other case with the same name as the mother,” DeLugas told me in a follow-up email.
If true, this story deserves to be Exhibit A in the case against government terrorizing parents for making reasonable decisions about how to raise their own children. But here’s a note of caution: This story was published based on the claims of a person who was granted anonymity and that person’s lawyer.
Cindy’s account could end up being 100 percent accurate, but we still haven’t seen an arrest report. After we spoke last night, Skenazy requested documents from Cindy and says that later today she’ll be “putting up a post with a page of the deprivation case with all the identifying info blacked out.”
Right now it doesn’t seem like “Cindy” is going to end up being another “Jackie,” the source of the bogus UVA/Rolling Stone rape story. But the editors of Skenazy’s story had no way of knowing that prior to publication. The point remains that journalists shouldn’t publish bombshell stories based upon the unverified claims of an alleged pseudonymous victim. Confirmation bias is not exclusively a problem of the left.
If I was arrested for this, there would be repercussions.
Very severe ones.
And it would START with the neighbor, but it would escalate to the arresting cop(s) and personnel in the system.
that might be a good idea too.
Maybe they should have a talk with their neighbor.
I remember in the early 70’s when my dad used to have a “talk” with one of the neighbors,remember when one of them turned out to be a southpaw,took him a moment to adjust but when he finished “talking” the neibour understood his position.
At the very least, the busy body neighbor should have taken a chair to the backyard, sat down and watched the 11 y/o. That is if she was really concerned. Neihborliness has disappeared too much in America. People say they are afraid to help out. . Bullshlt. I think they are conveniently, for them, afraid to help out. No time. Too much responsibility. Let George do it. Liability. I’ll take my chances helping someone.
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