Georgia mom charged after son walks alone less than a mile from home

A ma successful Georgia is facing imaginable jailhouse clip after her 10-year-old lad was recovered walking unsocial to town, little than a mile from the family’s home.

Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested connected suspicion of reckless behaviour connected Oct. 30 implicit her son's unsupervised walk, according to the Fannin County Sheriff's Office.

Patterson had taken different lad to a doctor’s assignment erstwhile she near her lad Soren, present 11, unsocial astatine their location successful the agrarian municipality of Mineral Bluff, NBC News reported. After idiosyncratic reported Soren’s wandering, deputies located him and drove him home.

"It's not a ace unsafe oregon adjacent dangerous-at-all agelong of road," Patterson told the outlet. "I wasn't terrified for him oregon frightened for his safety."

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Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested aft her lad was recovered walking unsocial little than 1 mile from location successful their agrarian municipality of Mineral Bluff, Georgia. (Fannin County Sheriffs Office)

Still, deputies returned to the location aboriginal and placed Patterson nether arrest.

In bodycam footage obtained by ABC News, deputies could beryllium heard telling Patterson she is nether apprehension for reckless endangerment. 

Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested aft it was reported to deputies that her son, who was 10 astatine the time, was walking unsocial little than a mile from the family's home. (Fannin County Sheriffs Office)

"And however was I recklessly endangering my child?" Patterson asked. 

Another lawman responded, "We're not talking astir it," earlier handcuffing the mom.

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Patterson and her lawyer said that authorities offered to driblet the complaint if she signed a information program that included utilizing a GPS tracker connected her son’s phone. 

The ma said she is refusing to motion the program and volition combat the charge.

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

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Patterson was released connected $500 bail and could look up to a twelvemonth successful jail nether the charge.