My 11-year-old walked less than a mile away from home. I was arrested and charged with reckless conduct.
A free-range parent was shocked when she was charged with "reckless conduct." She's been asked to put a tracker on her son's phone, which she refused.
Mother fighting child endangerment charges after son walks alone less than mile from home
Brittany Patterson, 41, of Mineral Bluff, Ga., was arrested by the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department on Oct. 30 after she left her son alone at home and he wandered less than a mile into town, according to NBC News.
Georgia mom arrested after 10-year-old son walks alone into town
Brittany Patterson was handcuffed in front of her children, arrested and booked into the Fannin County jail, where she had to post a $500 bond.
Mom arrested after son was reported walking alone
A Georgia mom was arrested for reckless conduct after her son, then 10, was reported for walking by himself in a rural area.
10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest
A Georgia mother was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son — all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home, officials said.
Mom arrested when home-schooled son, 10, wandered to town while she was at doctor with sibling
Brittany Patterson, 41, said the road her son walked in Fannin County, Georgia was not ‘even dangerous at all’
Video shows moments GA mother arrested for letting son walk to store by himself
A Georgia mother is facing jail time because her 10-year-old son walked into town by himself. Body camera video shows the moments that deputies showed up at Brittany Patterson’s door. On Oct. 30, Patterson said she took one of her children to the doctor.
Mom Claims Police Arrested Her After She Let Her 10-Year-Old Son Walk Less Than a Mile Alone
A Georgia mom claims police arrested her for endangering her 10-year-old son, but she did nothing wrong. While Brittany Patterson took another child to the doctor, her son, Soren, left the family’s rural Mineral Bluff home without telling anyone.
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