Mum arrested after boy, 10, walks home alone for a mile and police say she 'endangered' him

Brittany Patterson was arrested and charged aft her 10-year-old lad walked a mile location unsocial portion she was astatine the doctor's with different child

A mum has been arrested by police who assertion she enactment her 10-year-old lad successful information aft helium trekked location unsocial for a mile.

In a lawsuit that has sharply divided opinion, mum Brittany Patterson, 41, recovered herself cuffed connected suspicion of reckless behaviour and was told to cough up $500 bail pursuing her arrest.

The incidental has kicked up rather the tempest aft the mum defended the information of the roadworthy her lad walked, claiming it was "not ace dangerous."

The play unfolded connected October 30 erstwhile Patterson took different lad to spot a doctor. It was during this clip that the Fannin County Sheriff's Department rang her to study her lad had near their Mineral Bluff location and headed into town.

Chatting with NBC News, Patterson insisted, "It's not a ace unsafe oregon adjacent dangerous-at-all agelong of road. I wasn't terrified for him oregon frightened for his safety."

After the constabulary escorted the lad backmost home, they returned hours aboriginal to the family's residence adjacent the North Carolina border. That's erstwhile they slapped the cuffs connected Patterson, booking her for reckless conduct, reports Mirror US.

Patterson, of Georgia, US, expressed her dismay to section reporters, saying, "It was choler and frustration, of course, due to the fact that my children were having to witnesser that all. They asked maine to enactment my hands down my backmost and each that stuff, and I realised what was going on."

According to her ineligible team, officials person projected dropping charges against her if she agrees to a information program that ensures her children are supervised astatine each times. However, Patterson is reportedly refusing to motion the papers and insists connected warring the charge.

She stated: "This is not right. I did thing wrong. I'm going to combat for that."

NCB reports that Patterson's lawyer, David DeLugas, questioned, "Are each parents going to person to enactment GPS connected their child? The parents get to determine for their children unless it is unreasonably dangerous."

A Gofundme leafage has been acceptable up successful effect to the case, stating, "Just a lad connected a walk. He knows to beryllium cautious and NOT to locomotion successful the road. This was connected the enarthrosis of roads wherever the velocity bounds is 35 mph past goes down to 25 mph. In a municipality without ANY stoplights and conscionable 1 4-Way Stop intersection.

"This is yet different clip erstwhile a sole Deputy Sheriff substitutes her judgement astir what parents tin and cannot bash and seeks an apprehension warrant (that judges routinely motion without question). Here, the instrumentality she is alleged to person violated was declared unconstitutional successful 1997 by the Georgia Supreme Court (same instrumentality utilized to apprehension Melissa Henderson). Law enforcement conscionable uses that instrumentality for thing deemed 'reckless' oregon unsafe.

"Again, different parent arrested with handcuffs, fingerprinting, mug shot, stripping down and changing into jailhouse clothing, due to the fact that 1 idiosyncratic successful instrumentality enforcement claims it is SO unsafe to fto a kid locomotion astir without a genitor watching each second. Brit Patterson told ParentsUSA that it was humiliating (and who wouldn't consciousness that way? ) and that her children are truthful bittersweet watching her get arrested (and her lad feels responsible).

"When the Assistant District Attorney for Fannin County was asked whether ANYONE, kid oregon adult, has ever been deed by a conveyance connected this agelong of road, she couldn't reply (right aft saying "something could person happened"). ParentsUSA has filed an Open Records Request asking for each incidents wherever a kid oregon big was injured connected this agelong of roadworthy and immoderate (GASP) abductions successful the full region successful the past TWO YEARS. Let's spot what we get."