I don’t know where in Indiana, so I looked from Paw Paw to a town in Indiana right over the state line. An hour. More if they traveled over the line.
Too far! and especially with a dangerous dog in the home. Maybe they left the older brother with him and he left little brother, but as it turns out, they left him with an untrustworthy babysitter, if that was the case.
Maybe I’m prejudiced. I actually wouldn’t leave my kids and even leave town until the youngest was 13 and then left with a brother forbidden to leave the younger one, EVER. Of course I didn’t have any man eating dogs either.
I agree - that is unreasonable for a 10-year-old, even without the dog. I was thinking of situations in my North Carolina county, where you can drive 10 minutes to a gas station in South Carolina.