Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town - eviltoast
  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    10 days ago

    “I will not sign,” she says.

    Very good idea. I wouldn’t sign anything.

    Btw, what did they even charge her with? I mean, don’t you have to commit some crime in order to be detained?

    • wjrii@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      The ADA hasn’t decided how hard to push it yet, but she was arrested for reckless conduct:

      A person who causes bodily harm to or endangers the bodily safety of another person by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his or her act or omission will cause harm or endanger the safety of the other person and the disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation is guilty of a misdemeanor.