A mother in Georgia is dealing with doable jail time after her 10-year-old son was discovered strolling alone to city, lower than a mile from the household’s house.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son’s unsupervised stroll, based on the Fannin County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Patterson had taken one other son to a physician’s appointment when she left her son Soren, now 11, alone at their house within the rural city of Mineral Bluff, NBC Information reported. After somebody reported Soren’s wandering, deputies positioned him and drove him house.
“It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road,” Patterson instructed the outlet. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”
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Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested after her son was discovered strolling alone lower than one mile from house of their rural city of Mineral Bluff, Georgia. (Fannin County Sheriffs Workplace)
Nonetheless, deputies returned to the house later and positioned Patterson underneath arrest.
In bodycam footage obtained by ABC Information, deputies may very well be heard telling Patterson she is underneath arrest for reckless endangerment.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested after it was reported to deputies that her son, who was 10 on the time, was strolling alone lower than a mile from the household’s house. (Fannin County Sheriffs Workplace)
“And how was I recklessly endangering my child?” Patterson requested.
One other deputy responded, “We’re not talking about it,” earlier than handcuffing the mother.
Patterson and her lawyer stated that authorities provided to drop the cost if she signed a security plan that included utilizing a GPS tracker on her son’s telephone.
The mother stated she is refusing to signal the plan and can struggle the cost.
“I just felt like I couldn’t sign that and that in doing so, would be agreeing that there was something unsafe about my home or something unsafe about my parental decisions and I just don’t believe that,” the mother instructed ABC Information.
Patterson was launched on $500 bail and will resist a 12 months in jail underneath the cost.
