Do you realize a 10 year old is in the 3rd grade? You’d leave a 10 year old child on a city sidewalk alone?
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Actually a 10 year old is in the 5th grade. But, whatever...
I guess it depends a lot on the city/town. Would be nothing unusual about 10 year olds (4/5th grade) walking downtown and back in my smaller town, and I know I did in first grade. Have to be a little more careful nowadays, though.
Ten years old and in Class 3? I did not realise that they start so late in the US.
I was in fifth grade when I was ten.
I walked to school every day, and back, to swim lessons, to return a lawnmower once - I think this is circumstantial.
Not too cold? Kids know the way home? Not on the side of a busy freeway? Not too hot/no water? Kids not sick? Not in a bad neighborhood?
If the above circumstances were met, I wouldn’t convict were I on the jury.