As far as her parents allowing her to cross the street, today we heard her brother, Dylan, age 5, just did...we also heard reference, brief before sustained, that Mark Rohr, DW's neighbor had to rescue on of the VD boys from something.
We don't truly know yet how often she actually was out with supervision.
You think Brenda thanked the neighbors for helping Dylan back to safety? I'll bet she didn't know a thing about it until today. She'll thank them later I'm sure.