Mom Arrested for Letting Her 10 yr old Son Walk to Town 1 Mile Away

 It's pretty scary when you realize the trouble you can get in for something was very normal just a handful of years ago.  When I was 8 years old, my friends and I would walk to the hockey rink about a mile down the road.  There were no cell phones.  We would tell our moms we were going and they'd say, "be home for dinner!"  That was it!  Sometimes we'd leave home at 10 am during Winter Break when warming house would open, and we'd each have $.50 cents for a can of pop and Cheeto's for lunch and we'd be gone from 10 am to 6 pm.

Oh yeah, and if you sassed your mom and your dad heard about it, we'd get a paint stick to our bare behinds.

Today we are reading that a kid in small town Georgia decided to walk a mile to town, and the town is only 350 people so a real small place.  As he was walking a lady saw him and called the police.  I'll let you read the rest.

"I figured he was in the woods, or at grandma's house," says Patterson, who lives on 16 acres with her kids and her father. (Her husband works out of state). There is no shortage of family in the vicinity. Patterson's mother and sisters live just two minutes away.

Soren, however, was not playing in the woods. He had decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff, a town of just 370 people. It's not quite a mile from his house. A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.

Nevertheless, she called the police.

A female sheriff picked up the boy and called Patterson. "She asked me if I knew he was downtown and I said no," says Patterson.

Patterson was upset that Soren had gone to town without letting anyone know, but says there was hardly reason to worry.

"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," she says.

The sheriff disagreed.

"She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened," recalls Patterson.

The sheriff drove Soren home and left him with his grandfather. After returning to the house, Patterson scolded her son—and that, she thought, was that.

But at 6:30 p.m. that night, the sheriff returned with another officer. They told Patterson to turn around and put her hands behind her back. As three of her kids watched, Patterson was handcuffed. The sheriff took her purse and phone, put her in the cruiser, and hauled her off to jail.

To Patterson, none of this made sense. She had grown up in the area with plenty of unsupervised time to wander and play and was raising her kids that way, too.

"The mentality here is more Free-Range," she says.

Patterson was soon released on a $500 bail. The next day, a case manager from the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) came out for a home visit, and even went to interview Patterson's oldest son at his school. The case manager told Patterson that everything seemed fine, but declined to comment to Reason.

A few days later, DFCS presented Patterson with a "safety plan" for her to sign. It would require her to delegate a "safety person" to be a "knowing participant and guardian" and watch over the children whenever she leaves home. The plan would also require Patterson to download an app onto her son's phone allowing for his location to be monitored. (The day when it will be illegal not to track one's kids is rapidly approaching.)

Here;  Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

Unbelievable!  And even Yahoo News thinks to comment that it will soon be ILLEGAL NOT TO TRACK YOUR KIDS is coming.

You know what else is coming??  When it's illegal to not have a mark on your right hand or forehead so that the government can track you and also will be used to buy or sell anything legally.  Taking the mark will forever exclude you from eternity with Christ and not taking it will send the forces of Antichrist to your location in the hopes they can arrest you and remove your head.