Georgia woman arrested for letting her 10-year-old son walk to a store less

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There’s really only one word to describe this story, and that word is ridiculous.

This woman was booked on suspicion of reckless conduct … for allowing her son to walk less than a mile into town while she was at the doctor with one of her other children.

This is a real story that happened in America. And not in one of our big cities; this happened in rural Georgia.

A Georgia woman was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son – all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home, officials said.

Brittany Patterson, 41, had taken another son to a doctor on Oct. 30, and she became mildly annoyed – but not at all worried – when the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department called to say her son Soren had wandered from their rural home in Mineral Bluff and into town …

Deputies drove Soren, now 11, home and that was that, or so Patterson thought.

“Or so Patterson thought.”

You know, that was really nice of the police to drive her son home. Police “protect and serve” their community, and this would’ve been a great example of this motto.

Except the drive home was only the beginning of this story.

As you saw above, the police later showed up at Patterson’s door to arrest her. Yes, arrest her. They booked her on suspicion of reckless conduct and she was forced to post $500 bail.

Here’s my favorite part of the story:

Authorities have offered to drop the charge if Patterson signs a form that outlines a safety plan guaranteeing that her children would always be under a watchful eye, she and her lawyer said.

Patterson refuses to sign the form and said she’ll contest the charge, which carries up a year behind bars.

She refused to sign the form which, “includes the use of a GPS tracker on her son’s phone.”

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.

She’s willing to serve a year in jail for this ridiculous “crime.”

I mean, when I was a kid, we were allowed to roam the streets at will. Nowadays, you can’t go a mile away from home without your mother being charged with reckless conduct?