Posted on 11/12/2024 12:19:59 PM PST by algore
A mother-of-four was handcuffed in front of her children and hauled off to jail after she allowed her 11-year-old son to walk less than a mile into a small town.
Brittany Patterson went to drive her eldest son to a medical appointment on October 30, 11-year-old Soren, was supposed to tag along - but was not around when it was time to leave
She had figured he was simply playing in the woods or visiting his grandmother, Patterson told the outlet, noting that her father lives with them and her mother and sisters live just two minutes away.
But it turned out Soren decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff, a town of just 370 people that is less than a mile from their home.
He was spotted alongside the road by a woman who asked if he was OK, and even though he replied that he was, the woman called police
A female sheriff's deputy then picked up the boy, and called Patterson.
'I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,' Patterson said of the street that has a speed limit of up to 35mph.
The deputy, however, 'kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or "anything" could have happened,'
The deputy ultimately drove Soren home and left him with his grandfather.
around 6.30pm that night, the deputy showed up with another officer, handcuffed Patterson and brought her to jail, where she was fingerprinted, had her mugshot taken and was put in prison garb, according to an online fundraiser set up for her legal bills.
She said she did not understand what was happening, as she had grown up in the area with unsupervised time to wander and play, and was raising her children that way as well.
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Okay, I’ll give my verdict. Not guilty.
I wasn’t to be seen until 7PM. Free range childhood for sure. I had a speedometer for my Schwinn Stingray. I rolled up 40 miles a day in the summer, 15 miles or so during school days. “Go take on the world, son”, was my dad’s advice.
Here’s the link to a fundraiser to help pay her legal bills to fight these ridiculous charges. Sounds like we need to get rid of some “public servants” at the local level in addition at the federal level.
Unaccompanied minors walk across the border everyday and democrats think it’s wonderful but I bet this cop votes rat and doesn’t see the hypocrisy.
He was spotted alongside the road by a woman who asked if he was OK, and even though he replied that he was, the woman called police, the magazine reports.
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That right there is the problem, not the LEOs.
The kid TOLD her he was ok, he was alone so nobody was forcing him to say that.
Apparently “she” (un-named of course) believed she knew more than the actual person being asked.
So being the happy Karen idiot that she probably is... 911 to HER rescue.
I would sue her and the LEOs for being too stupid to actually think.
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so what, exactly, is the law that she broke? if a law officer arrests someone without a specific charge isn’t that considered false imprisonment? I’m curious but I’ll bet she’s furious.
Some cop just wanted her number and an excuse to grill her. Cops have a weird and psychotic sort of dating rituals. They use their power and authority to find women to date. A lot of tailing and stalking too. It’s hard to shake em if they decide you need to have them in your life.
He’s 11 ,not 5 , holy smokes what is wrong with people ?
I’ m sure the boy knew well enough to stay out of the road .
They separated the family?
The US Attorney should charge the deputy with Kidnapping, it doesn’t matter if she let the kid go, she already did the crime.
Slap a uniform on some people and they convert to a petty tyrant in a heartbeat. But these mini-tyrants always have “a good reason” or they’re “just doing their job” or they act with “good intentions” which they expect will be accepted and respected by normal people who simply cannot be expected to “know better”.
When I was 11, me and the boys from the neighborhood took the train from Naugatuck Ct to NYC and the the subway out to Yankee Stadium. I saw Maris hit his 58th homer. I think our seats in the bleachers cost $1.50. When I told my parents what I was doing, they said OK
“She didn’t understand” “didn’t know what was happening”. Her comments led me to believe she is a lib or very naive about life and politics.
That deputy would have had to drag me or my wife into the cruiser and into jail. Then the sheriff would have faced a reelection nightmare. Something doesn’t add up here.
But then I was hitchhiking by that age because I hated taking a school bus home after sports games and practices. My mom also left me in charge of my siblings when she left on errands.
I regularly rode my bike 30 miles across the US-Canadian border when I was 12 years old, to my uncles’ lake Erie beach house.
I think my only ID at the time was a library card.
US and Canada customs officials never gave us a problem, but of course, that was back when society was SANE.
I used to walk to school over 1 mile in chest deep snow, up hill BOTH ways. And we LIKED IT tooooo.
Harper Valley 2024???
One more thing that just crossed my mind.
In a rural town with just a 370 population there is no way a deputy would not know an 11 year old kid that lives there.
Seeing as how mom is probably the hottest female around those parts, the caller was female and the arresting LEO was female I would say there is more than a bit of “we’ll show her” in this tale of small town intrigue.
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My grandad would ride the NYC subway system alone ... he was 9 at the time. Never bothered.
At age nine I was riding my bicycle alone over two miles to my grade school and back, and by 11 I was riding all over town.
What the hell happened to humanity?
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