A mother in Georgia is dealing with attainable jail time after her 10-year-old son was discovered strolling alone to city, lower than a mile from the household’s residence.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son’s unsupervised stroll, in line with 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 residence within the rural city of Mineral Bluff, NBC Information reported. After somebody reported Soren’s wandering, deputies positioned him and drove him residence.
“It isn’t an excellent harmful and even dangerous-at-all stretch of highway,” Patterson instructed the outlet. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his security.”
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Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested after her son was discovered strolling alone lower than one mile from residence of their rural city of Mineral Bluff, Georgia. (Fannin County Sheriffs Workplace)
Nonetheless, deputies returned to the house later and positioned Patterson below arrest.
In bodycam footage obtained by ABC Information, deputies could possibly be heard telling Patterson she is below 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 residence. (Fannin County Sheriffs Workplace)
“And the way was I recklessly endangering my baby?” Patterson requested.
One other deputy responded, “We’re not speaking about it,” earlier than handcuffing the mother.
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Patterson and her lawyer mentioned that authorities supplied to drop the cost if she signed a security plan that included utilizing a GPS tracker on her son’s telephone.
The mother mentioned she is refusing to signal the plan and can combat the cost.
“I simply felt like I could not signal that and that in doing so, could be agreeing that there was one thing unsafe about my residence or one thing unsafe about my parental selections and I simply do not imagine that,” the mother instructed ABC Information.
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Patterson was launched on $500 bail and will withstand a yr in jail below the cost.
