Wow. When I was a kid, I lived in a small town but I walked all over town. A friend lived across town and we used to walk back a forth to each others house. it was 3 miles one way. I was always outside as a kid. This is just insane to me.
As a person outside of US, I am wondering why the mom was arrested. I walk going home to school back then because public transport was still scarce and I don't have a bike. I also lived in Japan for a few months and a lot of kids there go to school, malls, theme parks by walking. The government overstepping on parenting makes the children weak.
@@Jay-is2jy He did not "wounder off" he went to the store. hes 10, look at the kid! kids here like him ride their YZ125s to the store. What is this country a prison?
@@kelleygreengrass Any Gen X'er would probably answer you by saying "SO???..." At 10 years old I was gone all day, back for dinner. And this was in a far larger and more dangerous city, at a time when multiple serial killers roamed about the pacific northwest. My... what pathetically coddled creatures we've become in a short 40 years. smh
@@kelleygreengrassnot knowing exactly where your kid is 24/7 is a crime? this is the new america - the mistrust of people you don’t know - assuming those you don’t know are evil instead of assuming they are good and competent. the election showed a lot assume other americans are bad people.
@@kelleygreengrassHi! hi! hi! I'm 75. My kids are now nearly 44 and 42. We live in a semi-rural area. After the age of 5, my kids had free rein of our street and the neighbourhood of about 100 houses. My daughter was the adventurous one and had a bike! she might be anywhere and I'd never know. I admit that I was happy when my son learned to bike, too, and accompanied her because there is safety in numbers, right? Why would someone call the police when they saw a 10 year old walking along the road into town? I remember my daughter and my son asked to go to the playground a short walk away one time. I said, "Yes!" On the way there, my daughter got into the adventurous spirit and decided to hitchhike. Very quickly, a passing motorist phoned the police. A police car brought the 2 kids home. That was it? The policeman when told where the kids lived did take the wrong route into town until my daughter told him he was going the wrong way and our street was in the opposite direction. The kids were probably standing at our corner when the police car stopped! My young son was outraged when the police asked him, "Is she your real Mom?" LOLOL! I guess he thought most moms were real and it was a stupid question. No arrest. Why didn't the policeman just tell the kids to go home or stop hitchhiking? I'm thankful we don't live in Georgia.
Kids walking alone? So... we can be arrested for kids walking home from school? What if they want to walk to a friend's house? I used to walk or ride my bike everywhere when I was a kid. What we talking about here
Yeah! My father always rented or bought a house at the edge of town. Strangely, 3 out of the 4 of us kids also live just on the edge of our respective towns or small cities. It's great. We have a large lot. We have the woods to wander in. We can bike into town. Perfect envirnoment for raising independent children. We had a fairly long walk to school and we always did it even at the age of 5! On Saturday mornings, we had piano lessons so the 3 of us walked a long, long way to the lesson and back home. My mother probably thought the $3 was money well spent.
We rode our bikes on a lonely country road to the nearest store for bomb pops or candy bars. No cell phone, no having to call home when we got there. Way too much parenting out of fear today which produces anxious kids.
If a parent submits to a tracking app, that will one day be submitting to a chip in the child , which will one day be the state monitoring of all our movements 24/7. “For our safety”, of course.
So it’s mandatory that all 10 year olds have smartphones so that tracking apps can be downloaded to them ? And that the kids have to carry those phones at all times. This whole situation is too stupid for the police department, DAs office and the family services office to continue to exist.
This is government overreach. I completely support this woman 110 percent. This is absolutely ridiculous. And there should be consequences for that Police department pulling this b*******
So the DA is saying this parent has to buy a $700 phone to keep track of their children? So now we're taxing parents? Sue the crap out of this Sheriff then run a campaign to remove the DA. It's time we take back the rights they think they get to give us.
I know the world is different now, but this is stupid. The kid is gonna be scared of everything now. They didn’t say how far the store was. I used to walk all over my neighborhood when I was younger then 10
Airtags. Even hunting dogs have a collar that tells the hunters where they are. However, how necessary would an airtag be? My son did get lost in our woods once. He's like his grandmother: no sense of direction. You can hear the 6-lane highway below the woods. You can hear the busy 2 lane highway that runs past our house. You can hear the even busier 2-lane highway that runs over on the other side of the woods. He had our 84 lb hound with him who was a very experienced animal and could easily find his way home. So, ask me how my son could get lost??? He and his friend and our dog did make it home just before dark! I wasn't worried about them because I figured that they had walked into town. "I'm sketchy!" my son announced to me one day. He sure is.
We never had any rtracking when we were kids. Know one knew where we were all day! This is just wrong! I crossed a major hwy in 4th grade by my self to go to the library. Let the kids be kids. Teach them what to look for as being dangerous and how to avoid this. Don’t teach kids to be afraid to live life. Let that mom alone!
Nonsense. I can see if the kid was a toddler, but he's 10! At 10 I was biking all over the community alone and with my friends. We could spend all day on our own as long as we checked in once in a while and were back before dark. Crime rates were just as bad back then and we did get ourselves into trouble from time to time, but we all survived somehow. You don't learn much about the world or how to be independent when you're suffocating in bubble wrap and your parents are holding your hand all the time. Let kids be kids for crying out loud. There needs to be clearer boundaries set when it comes to government interfering with the family, too. These cops are very confused.
My parents woulda done natural life for all the times I walked to town or walked around the woods. Is this county insane? This is weird beyond belief. I gotta believe somebody in this town just doesn't like this woman or something - for whatever reason. Doesn't make any sense.
When I was three I rode a tricycle nearly half a mile to the supermarket where I was promptly recognized by our mailman, scooped up unto his truck, and delivered back to my house.
This IS BULL POO … when I was growing up, coming from a large family .. we children were all over everywhere.. only time mama ever hollered for us, WAS too come in and eat dinner, get our baths, prepare for bed GEORGIA MIND YOUR OWN DANG BUSINESS
So crazy! My daughter's counsellor, without meeting me, said I suffered from "catastrophic thinking" when she heard how type 1 diabetes is managed today. Obviously, the poor woman has no clue about how dangerous low blood glucose or high blood glucose levels can be.
I walked to and from school from the first grade. We even had bicycles racks for us to park our bicycle at school. PS: there is absolutely nothing that the police cant make worse!!!
How old are her children? How far did they get from home? Were they in danger, in the street etc? What is the legal age in the state for children to be left unattended for an extended amount of time? It sounds like they just made something up and are trying to see what she’ll accept from them.
And this mom should NOT sign ANYTHING that is contrary to the law. They don’t get to dictate safe parenting subjectively. You don’t HAVE to put tracking devices on your kids.
The only thing that bothers me is that she didn’t know he left the house. It’s ok for kids to go to the store and around the neighborhoods and town. BUT you need to know that your kid left the house. She even said she was just fed up with him and didn’t care what he did. Soooo there is more to this story
I don't like the lawyer's take. He's right, but what's more important is that this is an ongoing 4th amendment violation wrought upon this lady, her kids, and her family.
I'm so glad that my elementary school years were between 1965 and 1971. I never thought that I'd get to 65 years old and actually be grateful to be that age... even wishing I was 10 or 15 years older. It was a good life.
I was a kid in the 80's, it was great. After school I delivered my news papers then did whatever I wanted, as long as I was home for dinner when my father got home from work and then home when it was getting dark our parents didn't care.
I live outside my small town, but Innside town ALL the kids and I mean ALL the kids walk to and from school. there is no bussing in town. I've seen little kids like 6 years old walking to and from school. WTF is wrong with these cops? I could understand if she lived in south side Chicago or somewhere like that, but she doesn't.
I'm 75. Even in kindergarten, my brother and sister and I walked to school.. When we moved to a slightly rural area, we walked along a highway that led eventually to Montreal, the main road Eastern Ontario. My twin brother and I were in grade 8 so the walk was an easy one. My youngest sister, though, was only in grade 3. She used to cry at the long walk to school each day. I remember our neighbour also in grade 8 snapped at me one day, "Why is W. crying? B. (her younger sister) is in grade 2 and she's not crying." I guess she implied my sister was a whimp. LOLOL! That family had lived where we lived for a year so B. must have walked that long way (about 30 minutes) even in grade 1! Our parents wouldn't even have thought about driving us to school.
Shoot, as a 10 year old i had more long distance miles on my schwinn then most people had on their cars. Riding 20 plus miles away from home by myself and home before the street lights came on..
Some cops even bother adults walking alone in public at night or early a.m. Watched on UA-cam the other day police bodycam footage of an adult male walking on a public sidewalk at 1 am not bothering anybody and a cop parked his vehicle and approached him saying the man "looked suspicious" for walking early am. The cop ended up arresting the man for being "disorderly" for walking so early a.m. Some cops are out of control.
This is outrageous. I hope she sues and helps set a precedent in the area to protect parent's rights over states rights. I'm grateful I live in a state with free range protections for parents
She should be praised for getting his nose out of a smartphone, and taking a walk. My whole familly would have rotten in jail, because of me, being outside.
I was walking back and forth to school in urban southern CA by age 6 in the 1970s. This is completely ridiculous. Sounds like this town needs a law enforcement overhaul.
Yeah … Sue the department and “officer” for false arrest. Don’t accept ANY “Deal” that’s an admission of Guilt it might not seem like much but its a crack in a dam. Actually I think parents NEED to stand up for Children’s Rights to be Children.
This ignorant excuse for an out of shape young cop should be removed from her job due to her inability to think rationally and make decisions based on sound judgement.
The police traumatized the children by handcuffing their mom in front of them and other behaviors -- truly reckless and irresponsible behavior on their part. I hope she can sue them for reckless endangerment of children.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's in a small Ohio town. Other kids and myself walked (and skateboarded / bicycled) everywhere for miles every day. What is happening to this mother is insane and simple government bullying. I hope that sheriff's dept gets sued into oblivion and those involved get fired. Send a message to those that want a police state.
This is ridiculous. I was all over the place as a 10 year old. It was normal. She shouldn't sign anything and should contact Institute for Justice so see if they will take the case pro bono. She doesn't need a phone with a tracking app and she hasn't done anything wrong. Stand strong.
Utterly ridiculous!!! The kid is outside and getting exercise! Not sitting in front of a television playing games. Did someone turn her in or was this a random act from the police? Sheesh! Where’s that go fund me at again??
Latchkey kid here... grew up in santa cruz ca and felton ca. I went everywhere. The good ol days ❤ i hope all this works out for the mom, but im sure her kids are probably so scared of everything now and thats going to change their life. Not to mention how her son is feeling poor guy.
Why would they handcuff the poor woman? Standard procedure? I used to walk along a busy highway to a bus stop 30 minutes a way. I was a bit older, 13, not 10 in the Canadian winter. What is the problem with this situation?
I'm so glad I grew up in the 90's. We'd walk all the town until those street lights came on, then we'd play ghost in the graveyard until midnight through the neighborhood. This is absurd af.
I'm in Canada as long as my kids responded when I called their names they were allowed to play outside unsupervised. This notion of kidnappings and the like are ridiculous, it was an excuse back in the 90s and still rampant today. Teach children to be aware of their surroundings and teach them where to go if they need help. It's pretty simple Stay strong Mom, you did nothing wrong
Why put someone in handcuffs? She wasn't fighting or trying to get away. She posed no threat. Is this a police power trip to put anyone in handcuffs (in front of their children)?
Sounds like she would have been arrested either way. If she went to the police station admitting she don't know where her kid is, jail. Not knowing where her kid is because she really doesn't care because she knows he's responsible, jail. This is a problem with the Sheriff, stepping way over the line. The Sheriff should be arrested and charged with interfering with parental operations. Can't imagine the nerve of that sheriff trying to claim she knows how to raise that mother's kid better than the mother. Scary.
Why can't the child walk into town? I remember when I was 5 that I stole my mother's baby carriage and pushed into the shopping area in the small town (2,000 people) where we lived. I put my doll in it before departing and covered baby carriage with the mosquito net which my mother always used to keep her baby free of mosquito bites. I remember a woman looking in the carriage and saying with relief, "Oh, it's only a doll." I guess for a moment she thought I'd kidnapped my baby sister. LOLOL!
@@dinkster1729 I agree the child should be allowed to walk to town. I agree the mom shouldn’t be charged. The sheriff’s do claim the kid was lost and didn’t know how to get home, didn’t have a cell phone, and didn’t know his address or phone number. Idk if that’s true yet, I didn’t see the bodycam, but if so Mom needs to teach the kid this info before he goes walking to town…though she still shouldn’t be arrested.
She handled this extremely well. Should not have been charged. We roamed our neighborhoods all the time as kids, and yes some kids went where they weren't supposed to. 10 years old is old enough. Drop charges, and she does not need parental guidance
If I'm wagering, little to nothing is likely to happen to the mom.... this time... but that's not really the issue at play here. The point of all this is to send a very strong and clear message to parents and families that the state is omnipotent and not to be crossed.... Or else! Children are state property and parents have them only because the state allows it so don't start getting any funny ideas like you have rights as a parent because you do NOT! They are NOT your kids, they belong to the state. You are just being permitted to foster them. This is the kind of thinking that leads to low level bureaucrats signing off on the widespread sexual mutilation of children under the guise of "safety" while denying the parents any say in, or even knowledge of, this barbarity. The architects and the administrators of this ideology must be stopped and voters need to deliver judgement upon them while they still can.
I raised 3 sons in Chicago, they walked everywhere in the mid 2000 s. They are so independent, they even moved out of state and travel all over on their own. We can't be raising dummies 😅 lost puppies.
Wow Me and my best friend rode are bikes 12 miles to the beach when we were 8 we got a chewing out but that didn't stop us we still rode our bikes to the beach and everything was ok
My wild daughter the minute she learned to ride a 2 wheeler biked all the way through town and up a steep hill to her grandmother's--13 miles. I hadn't missed her. I guess I thought she was at our playground. She was about 5 or 6. My mother said, "Let her ride home!" I went and got her. There's a beautful beach near the small city where my brother and his wife live. My s-i-l, a very tiny woman said she and friends used to hitchhike out to this beach! It's maybe 20 miles. It was a regular thing.
Why has the state not trained its officers for this situation. The whole situation makes me sick to the core. Politicos making policies in the area must resign.
I'm a mom of five sons three daughters I live in a small and yes I let mine walk to town to the store!!! Stand strong mom!
good. Children deserve to get to be real people.
Wow. When I was a kid, I lived in a small town but I walked all over town. A friend lived across town and we used to walk back a forth to each others house. it was 3 miles one way. I was always outside as a kid. This is just insane to me.
As a person outside of US, I am wondering why the mom was arrested. I walk going home to school back then because public transport was still scarce and I don't have a bike. I also lived in Japan for a few months and a lot of kids there go to school, malls, theme parks by walking. The government overstepping on parenting makes the children weak.
Because she left a 10 yr old home alone and he wandered off
@@Jay-is2jy He did not "wounder off" he went to the store. hes 10, look at the kid! kids here like him ride their YZ125s to the store. What is this country a prison?
If the town isn't safe enough for a child to walk then that's on the cops not the mom. Make the town safer, it's your job as law enforcement.
Smells like a lawsuit.
I was tough things like this depends on the child. I think the prosecuter here should never be left alone as he is very low IQ.
I stand with the mom. The idea of arresting her is a pile of road apples.
She literally had no clue where her child was.
@@kelleygreengrass That's not true. He was within the boundaries set by her and had permission to walk around. Pay attention to your own kids!
@@kelleygreengrass Any Gen X'er would probably answer you by saying "SO???..." At 10 years old I was gone all day, back for dinner. And this was in a far larger and more dangerous city, at a time when multiple serial killers roamed about the pacific northwest. My... what pathetically coddled creatures we've become in a short 40 years. smh
@@kelleygreengrassnot knowing exactly where your kid is 24/7 is a crime?
this is the new america - the mistrust of people you don’t know - assuming those you don’t know are evil instead of assuming they are good and competent.
the election showed a lot assume other
americans are bad people.
@@kelleygreengrassHi! hi! hi! I'm 75. My kids are now nearly 44 and 42. We live in a semi-rural area. After the age of 5, my kids had free rein of our street and the neighbourhood of about 100 houses. My daughter was the adventurous one and had a bike! she might be anywhere and I'd never know. I admit that I was happy when my son learned to bike, too, and accompanied her because there is safety in numbers, right? Why would someone call the police when they saw a 10 year old walking along the road into town? I remember my daughter and my son asked to go to the playground a short walk away one time. I said, "Yes!" On the way there, my daughter got into the adventurous spirit and decided to hitchhike. Very quickly, a passing motorist phoned the police. A police car brought the 2 kids home. That was it? The policeman when told where the kids lived did take the wrong route into town until my daughter told him he was going the wrong way and our street was in the opposite direction. The kids were probably standing at our corner when the police car stopped! My young son was outraged when the police asked him, "Is she your real Mom?" LOLOL! I guess he thought most moms were real and it was a stupid question. No arrest. Why didn't the policeman just tell the kids to go home or stop hitchhiking? I'm thankful we don't live in Georgia.
That’s absolutely ridiculous I hope she sues.
Hey, government, get the HELL out of peoples lives!!!!! 😡
yeah republicans are the worst
Another example of the government trying to get into parents business
We've got enough examples to fill a library.
The voted for that and I love to see it
Kids walking alone? So... we can be arrested for kids walking home from school? What if they want to walk to a friend's house? I used to walk or ride my bike everywhere when I was a kid. What we talking about here
Yeah! My father always rented or bought a house at the edge of town. Strangely, 3 out of the 4 of us kids also live just on the edge of our respective towns or small cities. It's great. We have a large lot. We have the woods to wander in. We can bike into town. Perfect envirnoment for raising independent children. We had a fairly long walk to school and we always did it even at the age of 5! On Saturday mornings, we had piano lessons so the 3 of us walked a long, long way to the lesson and back home. My mother probably thought the $3 was money well spent.
She's not alone, I don't understand either. Even two decades ago this wouldn't have been an issue.
This is totally absurd. Poor Mom. Complete nonsense!
Maybe arrest solo males out driving around, who “might” be a predator. Makes as much sense as arresting this woman
Lol the cop is just like you but male. 😅
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Government overreach has gone to far
As a 5th grader I would go many MILES from home. I don't get this?
Maybe, the mother is viewed with suspicion for some reason. Does she do something weird like homeschool or read to her kids or what?
We rode our bikes on a lonely country road to the nearest store for bomb pops or candy bars. No cell phone, no having to call home when we got there. Way too much parenting out of fear today which produces anxious kids.
If a parent submits to a tracking app, that will one day be submitting to a chip in the child , which will one day be the state monitoring of all our movements 24/7. “For our safety”, of course.
Why do that when we carry one around in our pockets, completely voluntarily?
Authoritarian Bullshit. Fight Fight Fight.
I see Meal-Team Six showed up for the arrest!
Ok, best comment 😅
So it’s mandatory that all 10 year olds have smartphones so that tracking apps can be downloaded to them ? And that the kids have to carry those phones at all times. This whole situation is too stupid for the police department, DAs office and the family services office to continue to exist.
Cats and wandering dogs wear an air tag. Do we really want to know where our kids are at all times?
Right. Absolutely asinine for this overreach.
Man, this government is out of control...
This is government overreach. I completely support this woman 110 percent. This is absolutely ridiculous. And there should be consequences for that Police department pulling this b*******
Keep going! We the parents support you.
I'm a parent and I wouldn't abandon my child not knowing where he is. Maybe crappy parents support her.
@@kelleygreengrass You probably live in the city. Country life is different.
@@kelleygreengrassSo you have your kids on a leash 24/7. Absurd.
Country kids walk to town by themselves all the time where I live 😂. But, you need a 10 year old with them legally I guess. That’s the babysitter age.
So the DA is saying this parent has to buy a $700 phone to keep track of their children? So now we're taxing parents? Sue the crap out of this Sheriff then run a campaign to remove the DA. It's time we take back the rights they think they get to give us.
I sometimes walked alone a half mile, starting in kindergarten, from home to the school bus and back until I learned to drive
I'm honestly shocked this happened in Forsyth County. We moved from Fulton County to Forsyth to get away from such nonsense.
GA towns are big on collecting revenue by doing bogus charges like this.
We support you, Brittany! BIG BROTHER has no pace in your business. Keep fighting!
Child walking alone cause strangers - bad
Dropping your child off to strangers called public school - good
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You have got to be kidding. Teachers are not strangers. Get a grip.
Back in the 70's and 80's every parent would've arrested😂 so ridiculous!
Even right now. Lol kids who should walk home after school go play all the time.😅 this cop fam is definitely smelling his own farts.
My mom left me in the car as a baby with my 5 year old sister in charge 😂 all the time, she didn’t want to ever take us in the store. This was normal.
I know the world is different now, but this is stupid. The kid is gonna be scared of everything now. They didn’t say how far the store was. I used to walk all over my neighborhood when I was younger then 10
So what if you cant afford a phone for your kid....this isthe most stupid arrest heard
Airtags. Even hunting dogs have a collar that tells the hunters where they are. However, how necessary would an airtag be? My son did get lost in our woods once. He's like his grandmother: no sense of direction. You can hear the 6-lane highway below the woods. You can hear the busy 2 lane highway that runs past our house. You can hear the even busier 2-lane highway that runs over on the other side of the woods. He had our 84 lb hound with him who was a very experienced animal and could easily find his way home. So, ask me how my son could get lost??? He and his friend and our dog did make it home just before dark! I wasn't worried about them because I figured that they had walked into town. "I'm sketchy!" my son announced to me one day. He sure is.
Does THIS go for everybody in Georgia OR just her & her son at that very moment ???!! .. because I’m not understanding WHERE the problem is 👀👀👀
We never had any rtracking when we were kids. Know one knew where we were all day! This is just wrong!
I crossed a major hwy in 4th grade by my self to go to the library.
Let the kids be kids.
Teach them what to look for as being dangerous and how to avoid this. Don’t teach kids to be afraid to live life.
Let that mom alone!
They know they got nothing, so they're trying to get her to agree to ridiculous conditions so they can then get her for violating those. it's a trap.
Remember you are not free.
The local government is out of control. Given the public's negative reaction to this case, it's no surprise that no one will comment.
When I was a kid I walked alone to school five miles both ways uphill in zero degree weather.
Nonsense. I can see if the kid was a toddler, but he's 10! At 10 I was biking all over the community alone and with my friends. We could spend all day on our own as long as we checked in once in a while and were back before dark. Crime rates were just as bad back then and we did get ourselves into trouble from time to time, but we all survived somehow. You don't learn much about the world or how to be independent when you're suffocating in bubble wrap and your parents are holding your hand all the time. Let kids be kids for crying out loud. There needs to be clearer boundaries set when it comes to government interfering with the family, too. These cops are very confused.
A SAFETY PlAN?????? Are other parents doing that?????? Yeah no
If the mom was arrested the dad should have been arrested too.
My parents woulda done natural life for all the times I walked to town or walked around the woods. Is this county insane? This is weird beyond belief. I gotta believe somebody in this town just doesn't like this woman or something - for whatever reason. Doesn't make any sense.
She maybe turned someone down.
When I was three I rode a tricycle nearly half a mile to the supermarket where I was promptly recognized by our mailman, scooped up unto his truck, and delivered back to my house.
This IS BULL POO … when I was growing up, coming from a large family .. we children were all over everywhere.. only time mama ever hollered for us, WAS too come in and eat dinner, get our baths, prepare for bed
GEORGIA MIND YOUR OWN DANG BUSINESS
So crazy! My daughter's counsellor, without meeting me, said I suffered from "catastrophic thinking" when she heard how type 1 diabetes is managed today. Obviously, the poor woman has no clue about how dangerous low blood glucose or high blood glucose levels can be.
Govern me harder baby. What a utopian nightmare we've created by submitting to these fools .
dystopian*
@Bertranddeghaul I meant utopian.
The government schools have brainwashed them, Genx is the last generation with self thought.
@Cat22275 the public school system teaches hate and not much else
I walked to and from school from the first grade. We even had bicycles racks for us to park our bicycle at school.
PS: there is absolutely nothing that the police cant make worse!!!
Good grief. How long ago was that? 35-50 years ago? Times have changed man.
@nr1785 I was born in 1956
Was this boy unusually small? Has the family been in trouble before? Still, the whole situation is absurd.
Ridiculous! They're acting like he's a toddler.
How old are her children? How far did they get from home? Were they in danger, in the street etc? What is the legal age in the state for children to be left unattended for an extended amount of time? It sounds like they just made something up and are trying to see what she’ll accept from them.
And this mom should NOT sign ANYTHING that is contrary to the law. They don’t get to dictate safe parenting subjectively. You don’t HAVE to put tracking devices on your kids.
The only thing that bothers me is that she didn’t know he left the house. It’s ok for kids to go to the store and around the neighborhoods and town. BUT you need to know that your kid left the house. She even said she was just fed up with him and didn’t care what he did. Soooo there is more to this story
Good job NewsNation for covering this story.
Kids younger than that walk a mile to school around here. The local school buses are only for kids that live more than a mile away from the school
She doesn't have a Trump sign in her yard does she?
It's crazy
Ok. Where in the law does it say a 10 year old can't walk to the store.
I guess the police in Georgia are not busy enough.
I don't like the lawyer's take. He's right, but what's more important is that this is an ongoing 4th amendment violation wrought upon this lady, her kids, and her family.
Sue the pants off them. These over reaching goons need to be held accountable for their reckless behaviours.
To all of the people who complain about kids not playing outside anymore, this is why.
I'm so glad that my elementary school years were between 1965 and 1971. I never thought that I'd get to 65 years old and actually be grateful to be that age... even wishing I was 10 or 15 years older. It was a good life.
I was a kid in the 80's, it was great. After school I delivered my news papers then did whatever I wanted, as long as I was home for dinner when my father got home from work and then home when it was getting dark our parents didn't care.
The kid is 10 not 3 like whattt
Australia is watching and supports your fight against government tyranny! 🇦🇺🇺🇸
I live outside my small town, but Innside town ALL the kids and I mean ALL the kids walk to and from school. there is no bussing in town. I've seen little kids like 6 years old walking to and from school. WTF is wrong with these cops? I could understand if she lived in south side Chicago or somewhere like that, but she doesn't.
I'm 75. Even in kindergarten, my brother and sister and I walked to school.. When we moved to a slightly rural area, we walked along a highway that led eventually to Montreal, the main road Eastern Ontario. My twin brother and I were in grade 8 so the walk was an easy one. My youngest sister, though, was only in grade 3. She used to cry at the long walk to school each day. I remember our neighbour also in grade 8 snapped at me one day, "Why is W. crying? B. (her younger sister) is in grade 2 and she's not crying." I guess she implied my sister was a whimp. LOLOL! That family had lived where we lived for a year so B. must have walked that long way (about 30 minutes) even in grade 1! Our parents wouldn't even have thought about driving us to school.
Shoot, as a 10 year old i had more long distance miles on my schwinn then most people had on their cars. Riding 20 plus miles away from home by myself and home before the street lights came on..
I think someone/some people has a vendetta with this woman and was trying to harass her to be honest.
I believe she is a real estate agent. There could be a connection there in some way.
I would comment! But NewNation will tread on my free SPEECH!
Some cops even bother adults walking alone in public at night or early a.m. Watched on UA-cam the other day police bodycam footage of an adult male walking on a public sidewalk at 1 am not bothering anybody and a cop parked his vehicle and approached him saying the man "looked suspicious" for walking early am. The cop ended up arresting the man for being "disorderly" for walking so early a.m. Some cops are out of control.
Sounds like a huge over reach by government. Stay strong mom.
This is outrageous. I hope she sues and helps set a precedent in the area to protect parent's rights over states rights. I'm grateful I live in a state with free range protections for parents
Maybe, the kids are supposed to be home rotting their brains with video games.
False arrest and malicious prosecution. Get those cops fired and the DA disbarred.
After the charges are dropped. They should sue. She will win in court. Lawless abuse of power.
She should be praised for getting his nose out of a smartphone, and taking a walk. My whole familly would have rotten in jail, because of me, being outside.
Small town, safe, everyone does it from what I gathered.
I personally wouldn’t let a young kid walk alone in a city.
I was walking back and forth to school in urban southern CA by age 6 in the 1970s. This is completely ridiculous. Sounds like this town needs a law enforcement overhaul.
Yeah … Sue the department and “officer” for false arrest.
Don’t accept ANY “Deal” that’s an admission of Guilt it might not seem like much but its a crack in a dam.
Actually I think parents NEED to stand up for Children’s Rights to be Children.
This ignorant excuse for an out of shape young cop should be removed from her job due to her inability to think rationally and make decisions based on sound judgement.
You all still waving those “I support the police” flags?
FTP
How old is the kid? Horrible storytelling
The kids 3 years old genius
I believe he is 10 yrs old.
Being able to roam is a core port of Brain Development..... Proven Fact
If only they were this vigilant against abused kids, neglected, and kidnapped children. Hmmm
The police traumatized the children by handcuffing their mom in front of them and other behaviors -- truly reckless and irresponsible behavior on their part. I hope she can sue them for reckless endangerment of children.
This is crazy at 10 years old my friends and i were riding and walking all over and ': actually were told to be home at dusk for dinner.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's in a small Ohio town. Other kids and myself walked (and skateboarded / bicycled) everywhere for miles every day. What is happening to this mother is insane and simple government bullying. I hope that sheriff's dept gets sued into oblivion and those involved get fired. Send a message to those that want a police state.
This is ridiculous. I was all over the place as a 10 year old. It was normal. She shouldn't sign anything and should contact Institute for Justice so see if they will take the case pro bono. She doesn't need a phone with a tracking app and she hasn't done anything wrong. Stand strong.
Utterly ridiculous!!! The kid is outside and getting exercise! Not sitting in front of a television playing games. Did someone turn her in or was this a random act from the police? Sheesh! Where’s that go fund me at again??
Latchkey kid here... grew up in santa cruz ca and felton ca. I went everywhere. The good ol days ❤ i hope all this works out for the mom, but im sure her kids are probably so scared of everything now and thats going to change their life. Not to mention how her son is feeling poor guy.
Why would they handcuff the poor woman? Standard procedure? I used to walk along a busy highway to a bus stop 30 minutes a way. I was a bit older, 13, not 10 in the Canadian winter. What is the problem with this situation?
Why would you let your kid walk alone It’s an uproar how old is he
Any child under 12 left unattended walking or anywhere can cause parents to be arrested unfortunately. Huge issues with this!
Absurd.
We have lost our damn minds.
It really is too dangerous for 10 year olds to walk alone, however if it's not illegal this arrest is ridiculous
I went everywhere when I was 10 this is dumb..overreach of the law
Don’t sign anything they know they are wrong
I'm so glad I grew up in the 90's. We'd walk all the town until those street lights came on, then we'd play ghost in the graveyard until midnight through the neighborhood. This is absurd af.
Sadly NewsNation is definitely not "unbias" ... thanks to Fredo and alike
I'm in Canada as long as my kids responded when I called their names they were allowed to play outside unsupervised. This notion of kidnappings and the like are ridiculous, it was an excuse back in the 90s and still rampant today. Teach children to be aware of their surroundings and teach them where to go if they need help. It's pretty simple Stay strong Mom, you did nothing wrong
Why put someone in handcuffs? She wasn't fighting or trying to get away. She posed no threat. Is this a police power trip to put anyone in handcuffs (in front of their children)?
The sheriff’s told me she is being charged with not reporting a missing persons.
Sounds like she would have been arrested either way. If she went to the police station admitting she don't know where her kid is, jail. Not knowing where her kid is because she really doesn't care because she knows he's responsible, jail. This is a problem with the Sheriff, stepping way over the line. The Sheriff should be arrested and charged with interfering with parental operations. Can't imagine the nerve of that sheriff trying to claim she knows how to raise that mother's kid better than the mother. Scary.
@@timb7775I agree the Sheriff charging her regardless is a bit much. Maybe just encourage the kid to learn his address and mom’s number
Why can't the child walk into town? I remember when I was 5 that I stole my mother's baby carriage and pushed into the shopping area in the small town (2,000 people) where we lived. I put my doll in it before departing and covered baby carriage with the mosquito net which my mother always used to keep her baby free of mosquito bites. I remember a woman looking in the carriage and saying with relief, "Oh, it's only a doll." I guess for a moment she thought I'd kidnapped my baby sister. LOLOL!
@@dinkster1729 I agree the child should be allowed to walk to town. I agree the mom shouldn’t be charged. The sheriff’s do claim the kid was lost and didn’t know how to get home, didn’t have a cell phone, and didn’t know his address or phone number. Idk if that’s true yet, I didn’t see the bodycam, but if so Mom needs to teach the kid this info before he goes walking to town…though she still shouldn’t be arrested.
She handled this extremely well. Should not have been charged. We roamed our neighborhoods all the time as kids, and yes some kids went where they weren't supposed to. 10 years old is old enough. Drop charges, and she does not need parental guidance
If I'm wagering, little to nothing is likely to happen to the mom.... this time... but that's not really the issue at play here. The point of all this is to send a very strong and clear message to parents and families that the state is omnipotent and not to be crossed.... Or else!
Children are state property and parents have them only because the state allows it so don't start getting any funny ideas like you have rights as a parent because you do NOT! They are NOT your kids, they belong to the state. You are just being permitted to foster them.
This is the kind of thinking that leads to low level bureaucrats signing off on the widespread sexual mutilation of children under the guise of "safety" while denying the parents any say in, or even knowledge of, this barbarity.
The architects and the administrators of this ideology must be stopped and voters need to deliver judgement upon them while they still can.
I raised 3 sons in Chicago, they walked everywhere in the mid 2000 s. They are so independent, they even moved out of state and travel all over on their own.
We can't be raising dummies 😅 lost puppies.
Wow Me and my best friend rode are bikes 12 miles to the beach when we were 8 we got a chewing out but that didn't stop us we still rode our bikes to the beach and everything was ok
My wild daughter the minute she learned to ride a 2 wheeler biked all the way through town and up a steep hill to her grandmother's--13 miles. I hadn't missed her. I guess I thought she was at our playground. She was about 5 or 6. My mother said, "Let her ride home!" I went and got her. There's a beautful beach near the small city where my brother and his wife live. My s-i-l, a very tiny woman said she and friends used to hitchhike out to this beach! It's maybe 20 miles. It was a regular thing.
Why has the state not trained its officers for this situation. The whole situation makes me sick to the core. Politicos making policies in the area must resign.
The deputy arrested her for his opinion... totaly authoritarian.. your fired dude, dont be nice , sue his ass or he wont learn