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11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents
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#12I am foreigner, so could someone explain to me - why this is happening? From my discussion similar incidents with other parents it seems like everybody not sure why such attitude exists today. I mean, it should be same adults who have no clue why it is done, pass and enforce these laws?
Democracy, where the intention for 'safety' and 'protecting children' is valued above the actual results.
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#13CPS are disgusting scum. This kind of story is reported every week. The government is criminalizing parenthood. Kids can't play in their backyard, they can't walk to the playground, they can't ride their bikes. Do people remember their childhood? When did Americans become so socially retarded?
These cases are a tiny minority. CPS deals with real horrifying and tragic situations every day. I'm actually more shocked that there are prosecutors and even judges that go along with this BS. I can believe one insane activist CPS worker here and there, but an entire chain of people to back them up??
> CPS deals with real horrifying and tragic situations every day.
That's what boggles my mind the most. Every time we hear about CPS they're overworked and have to deal with horrors I don't even want to imagine. But how do they have time to waste voluntarily ruining peoples' lives?
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#14I hate to be that person but this isn't the actions of a country that prides itself as being free. Sadly, it's not an isolated case either. I've read numerous similar accounts of such things occurring. Along with the "lemonade stand permit", it's bewildering.
I realise that in the grand scheme, these are fairly unique but you simply don't hear about such things happening in Europe, in Australia or in the middle and far East. Perhaps it's a case of similar cases happening in other nations but just not reported on so much.
Why do we keep reading stories like this and the deluge of police brutality and other wacky stories coming out of the USA?
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#15I am foreigner, so could someone explain to me - why this is happening? From my discussion similar incidents with other parents it seems like everybody not sure why such attitude exists today. I mean, it should be same adults who have no clue why it is done, pass and enforce these laws?
There's a reason it's on the news, this is not a common thing.
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#16Here's a similar case where a writer left her son in her car for a few minutes in a parking lot at a store:
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/the_day_i_left_my_son_in_the...
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#17Maybe it's just me but I'm having a hard time taking this story seriously. The list of affronts visited on the family (strip searches, cops pissing on property, foster worse than the parents, humiliation of the parents by the state) makes it a story sound almost too good to be true if you are looking to rile up your readership.
No identifying information is another big red flag, the parents of the free range kids hassled for letting their kids walk a mile to the park were all over media but this even more horrible (if true) story of kids being taken away for playing in the back yard is totally anonymous? Come on.
The bar to get me to hate on bureaucratic drones is pretty low, over shoot it too much and you take the fun away.
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#18I hate to be that person but this isn't the actions of a country that prides itself as being free. Sadly, it's not an isolated case either. I've read numerous similar accounts of such things occurring. Along with the "lemonade stand permit", it's bewildering. I realise that in the grand scheme, these are fairly unique but you simply don't hear about such things happening in Europe, in Australia or in the middle and f…
Authoritarians. They are the ones escalating all this petty garbage, IMHO.
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#19I say this literally every time a story like this pops up but, as ever, I'll say it again: Have the (adults) in charge completely lost their minds? Is the government so out of touch with reality that this makes sense to them? I loved going on walks or riding my bike to the shops or sleeping in/playing at home when i was 10 or 11, and yet now this seems all but impossible to consider? How the hell did this happen?
Are we being fed a heavily edited version of the story? Was there more to the parental history than is mentioned? Why hide the identity of the parents, given that they've already been through the wringer and the whole affair is a matter of public record?
Given how overloaded CPS usually are, this article fails the sniff test.
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#20Is there any corroboration of the story, or a response by CPS and/or the court? It's very possible I missed it, but neither the article nor the comments give a solid source other than the parents.
Because the skeptic in me says that while CPS might be pretty bad, it's also not inconceivable that the aggrieved parents might leave out key details of the story. So I'd like to hear what CPS (or really, any other source) has to say before I get too up-in-arms here.