Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town - eviltoast
It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in
  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.