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Posted on 05/30/2014 7:22:35 PM PDT by grundle
A Hawaii man has been sentenced to a year of probation after making his son walk a mile home from school.
Robert Demond was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor.
Demond explained that his son had been involved in some sort of rule-breaking at school. When Demond picked him up, he asked about it, but his son refused to respond. Demond then stopped the car and told his son to walk to rest of the way home to think about what he had done, reports the Garden Island.
The judge, Kathleen Watanabe, ruled that the punishment was “old-fashioned” and inappropriate. She said that it is dangerous for children to walk alongside the road due to potential pedophiles. It was a form of punishment no longer supported by the community.
Demond was sentenced to a $200 fine and a year of probation. His son’s age was never revealed in court documents.
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Mark Steyn on RUSH today said that Richard Branson’s parents cut him loose 200 miles from home when he was 5 years old.
My mother let me walk nearly 20 miles once in the middle of the night when I was about 14.
I earned it.
Wussification trumps Parenting, every time.
Son of a ****... we, used to walk a mile and a half or thereabouts to school and the same distance back every single day of the school year and the only “punishment” anybody ever spoke of relevant to that was the punishment God was likely to inflict on any kid too candy-assed to do that for whatever reason.
We had to walk 2 miles to catch the school bus each day for weeks one year when the bus drivers went on strike. I think I was in 4th grade.
Don't you people realize that liberals dominate the entire justice system?
Kauai is Hippie Heaven. Far left even by Hawaii standards.
I walked over a mile each way to school on city streets when I was well under 14.
Oh, and I found out daughter doesn’t like to walk to school not because of a perceived “danger” but because it leaves less time to do her hair!
The universe is constantly expanding; a mile is longer now than back in our day.
THAT is a very scary sentence. The judge rules against the dad not because he broke the law, but because he did something "no longer supported by the community"? What happened to law?
I don’t think this had anything to do with the school.
Exactly! For me, it wasn't city streets, but rather frozen-over Michigan dirt roads. We lived at the end of a private street (no bus service) that was at the end of a dirt road. When the dirt roads became the cause of a lot of service problems to the bus, they changed the route to only stop at the intersection of the paved roads and dirt roads.
Through rainstorms - walk. Through snow-storms - walk. Through ice storms, and ice-skating conditions on the roads - walk. A mile, in each direction.
Our country is going nuts. Absolutely nuts.
I guess you can't blame the judge for the father's stupidity. No jury of adults with children would have convicted him of anything. That was probably the lightest sentence she could have given him for the crime he basically pled guilty to.
If he had a lawyer, the lawyer should be disbarred.
We (Security) used to get University students complaining that they could not get a car park - the northern end of the campus had a massive car park that was never full (less than a mile walk) - I had several young fit looking males and females whine at me “But that is so far” - My retort was “Just think of all the money you will save not having to pay for a gym membership”. I also told them I was more than twice their age and would have to walk that distance 10 -20 times a day. Look on their face was always precious like they had finally realized they were a spoilt whimp!
We are getting larger too, and our steps are longer. The same mile takes the same number of steps, regardless of the expansion factor.
This is easy to prove if you simply think that the space remains the same, but the ruler gets shorter.
> I don’t think this had anything to do with the school.
Maybe not but thats usually par for course on these types of situations.
screw that, put me in jail... it'll cost more than $200 and no probation to deal with
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