Dramatic bodycam footage shows Georgia mom Brittany Patterson's arrest for her son walking on his own

Horrifying bodycam footage shows the infinitesimal a Georgia ma was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old lad to locomotion little than a mile into a tiny town.

Brittany Patterson, 41, was captured connected constabulary bodycam footage being handcuffed and taken into custody connected October 30 aft she near her son, Soren, location alone. 

Police tin beryllium heard informing Patterson that she was being arrested for 'child endangerment' arsenic she stood successful the doorway of her family's home. 

'And however was I recklessly endangering my child?' she asked, earlier 1 of the officers gestured and told her to 'turn around'. 

'We're not talking astir it,' the serviceman added, earlier placing his manus connected her arm, turning her astir truthful she had her backmost to them, and putting her successful handcuffs. 

The footage past shows Patterson being walked toward the constabulary cars connected her driveway and enactment into the backmost with her hands inactive successful cuffs. 

Patterson was charged with reckless endangerment and taken into custody wherever she had her fingerprints and mugshot taken. 

The parent had near her location to instrumentality 1 of her older children to the doctor, portion Soren, who is 11 years aged but was aged 10 astatine the time, stayed home.  

According to the Fannin County Sheriff's Office, Soren had wandered little than a mile into municipality to scope the section Dollar General store, reported ABC News. 

The young lad was asked by a pistillate if helium was good portion helium walked down the roadworthy and, adjacent though helium said helium was fine, she called the police.  

Authorities recovered him walking unsocial aft receiving the call. He was past taken home, unharmed, earlier they came backmost hours aboriginal to apprehension Patterson. 

The warrant claimed that she 'willingly and knowingly endangered her juvenile son's bodily safety.'

In the aftermath of her arrest, Patterson told ABC: 'I was shocked, surprised, disbelief, couldn't truly recognize what was going connected oregon why.

'They told maine to enactment my hands down my backmost and past I had to inquire to archer my children goodbye.'

Patterson's assemblage rallied astir her since she was forced to station $500 bond, and donations reaching astir $54,000 poured into a GoFundMe for her ineligible defense. 

The outraged ma vowed to combat the charges contempt authorities offering to conditionally driblet them.

The time aft her arrest, a lawsuit manager from the Division of Family and Children's Services arrived astatine her location for a location sojourn and adjacent interviewed Patterson's oldest lad astatine his school.

The lawsuit manager told Patterson everything seemed good but a fewer days aboriginal the Division of Family and Children's Services presented her with a 'safety plan' for her to sign.

It would necessitate her to delegate a 'safety person' to beryllium a 'knowing subordinate and guardian', and ticker implicit the children whenever she leaves home.

The program would besides necessitate Patterson to download an app connected Soren's cellphone to show his determination - thing she has refused to do.

'I conscionable felt similar I couldn't motion that and that successful doing so, would, you know, beryllium agreeing that determination was thing unsafe astir my location oregon thing unsafe astir my parental decisions, and I conscionable don't judge that,' she told ABC News. 

'This is not right. I did thing wrong. I'm going to combat for that,' she told NBC News.

Attorney David DeLugas, the caput of ParentsUSA - a nonprofit that provides pro bono ineligible assistance to parents wrongly arrested and prosecuted for kid neglect - has picked up her case.

'Are each parents going to person to enactment GPS connected their child?' helium said. 'The parents get to determine for their children unless it is unreasonably dangerous.'

An adjunct territory lawyer has since told DeLugas that if Patterson were to motion the information plan, the transgression charges against her would beryllium dropped.

But DeLugas responded by saying that if Patterson was being compelled to motion a information program conscionable due to the fact that her lad walked determination without her knowing his nonstop location, helium would beryllium prevented from visiting friends oregon having immoderate independency whatsoever.

Still, the adjunct territory lawyer maintained that Soren had been successful danger, and truthful a information program was necessary.

She present faces a reckless behaviour charge, a $1,000 good and 1 twelvemonth successful jail.