Posted on 11/21/2024 7:26:27 PM PST by LibertyWoman
Horrifying bodycam footage shows the moment a Georgia mom was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old son to walk less than a mile into a small town.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was captured on police bodycam footage being handcuffed and taken into custody on October 30 after she left her son, Soren, home alone.
Patterson was charged with reckless endangerment and taken into custody where she had her fingerprints and mugshot taken.
The mother had left her home to take one of her older children to the doctor, while Soren, who is 11 years old but was aged 10 at the time, stayed home.
According to the Fannin County Sheriff's Office, Soren had wandered less than a mile into town to reach the local Dollar General store, reported ABC News.
The young boy was asked by a woman if he was okay while he walked down the road and, even though he said he was fine, she called the police.
Patterson's community rallied around her since she was forced to post $500 bond, and donations reaching almost $54,000 poured into a GoFundMe for her legal defense.
The outraged mom vowed to fight the charges despite authorities offering to conditionally drop them.
The case manager told Patterson everything seemed fine but a few days later the Division of Family and Children's Services presented her with a 'safety plan' for her to sign.
It would require her to delegate a 'safety person' to be a 'knowing participant and guardian', and watch over the children whenever she leaves home.
Attorney David DeLugas, the head of ParentsUSA - a nonprofit that provides pro bono legal help to parents wrongly arrested and ... - has picked up her case.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
When I was 10, I was babysitting other children, even in the evenings, at their homes. Walking 1.25 mile to school each way every day, sometimes walking home in the dark after basketball practice when it was no longer DST. Riding my bike about 5 miles to track practice and back including over an interstate overpass (on sidewalks).
I had at least a mile to walk to school at my elementary school. Couldn’t use my bike until the 6th grade to ride to school. Libtards ruin everything they touch.
When I was 10 I was riding horses into the woods...alone and sometimes just walking up the gravel road... alone. I hope she gives them bloody hell for this and then sues all involved.
Division of Family and Children's Services presented her with a 'safety plan' for her to sign.
Those SOB's are just wanting to take the Boy away from the Mother. Once She signs the contract they will be able to create a situation that will breach the contract and then they will take the Boy from Her.
I was allowed to stay home/in the neighborhood when I was 6 or 7 and if I left the house I was instructed to leave a note as to where I was going to be. Of course I was also raised in the era of Parents being able to spank their kids. People are too nosey these days.
These leftist retards have NO idea how large my free ranging childhood extent was in the 50s/60s.
When I got my [pedal, “English Racer”, 3 speed] bike in 1958, I could easily be 10 miles away without notice or communication.
This happened in one of the most rural counties in Georgia. The whole counties population is about 25,000.
Meanwhile, kids in big cities are walking to school past homeless, drug addicts and piles of feces.
unbelievable
Outrageous. This isn’t how it was reported at first AT ALL.
There is NO CALL to punish the mother for a defiant young boy in this manner, ESPECIALLY in consideration of a government which denies that it imported 300k foreign children for which they have no accounting of their whereabouts.
In my day, I’d be facing time in juvi, at least as a scare tactic. Times have changed for the worse, huh?
From the video, the deputy asserts that there’s a GA law which the mother violated. I find nothing which disputes their PC to arrest the mother.
There are much deeper problems in GA than just their elections, it seems.
If there had an equivalent active DCFS when I was growing up in the 60s, the jails would have been overflowing with my parents & friends’ parents for letting us go “free range” on our bikes. This kind of heavy handed government is why younger generations have no appreciation for the freedom that’s been lost.
Yikes. My mom would have wound up in jail. I walked to school alone when I was 7. In the Bronx! of course the Bronx wasn’t all a zoo back then but still....
Yeah, late 50’s I would pedal my old 3 speed about 6 miles each way to Rocky Mountain Fireworks to stock up on cherry bombs and M-80s.
The stepmonster would have gone ballistic had she known.
She was wrapped up with her kids, so I slipped under the radar when out on the bike.
When I was a fifth grader, I was climbing trees 50 feet in the air and sliding down their branches. My year younger brother would take a tree and I would take a tree. We would race each other to see who could get to the top of our tree first. His favorite thing was to ride pigs. I broke my arm jumping off a rope swing too late.
“...stock up on cherry bombs and M-80s....”
We used to place those in plastic models of warships with the fuse just out of the exhaust stack.
Light the fuse and push the ship out on the local pond.
Too bad BB guns couldn’t set off tannerite or we could have damaged ourselves...
Childhood >1980, or so, is just not the same.....
Evidently the Nanny State has fully blossomed down South.
I was prepared to read that this was in Oregon or Washington.
wth happened to GA...?
Fannin County, a deep red, rural mountain county in Georgia on the North Carloina border. Not something you wouuld expect from normal people.
I was riding all over town on my bicycle at 10.
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