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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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> She (the Sheriff) kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened,

This is weird. Is the crime so bad in the town? Even the good-for-nothing cops in my (developing) country do not come up with such nonsense.

Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

#8
When I was five years old I would walk along a path and take a bridge across a river to visit my friend to play board games. By the time I was nine I was bicycling forty-five minutes to school on a 80 km/h road. The level of paranoia that's infected people around keeping kids near their parents is insane.

Re: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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> She (the Sheriff) kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened, This is weird. Is the crime so bad in the town? Even the good-for-nothing cops in my (developing) country do not come up with such nonsense.

Apparently not knowing where your kid is IS the crime. Which is rampant in the countryside, RAMPANT!
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