A Georgia mom was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son — all as a result of the unsupervised 10-year-old walked lower than a mile away from house, officers stated.
Brittany Patterson, 41, had taken one other son to a health care provider on Oct. 30 and he or she grew to become mildly aggravated — however under no circumstances frightened — when the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department referred to as to say her 10-year-old boy Soren had wandered from their rural house in Mineral Bluff and into city.
“It’s not a brilliant harmful and even harmful in any respect stretch of highway,” Patterson advised NBC News, in an interview that aired Wednesday. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his security.”
Deputies drove Soren, now 11, house and that was that, or so Patterson had thought.
But then hours later, the sheriff’s division got here again to the household’s house close to the North Carolina border the place Patterson was handcuffed, arrested, booked for suspicion of reckless conduct and compelled to put up $500 bail.
“It was anger and frustration, after all, as a result of my kids have been having to witness that each one,” she stated. “They requested me to place my fingers behind my again and all that stuff, and I spotted what was occurring.”
Authorities have supplied to drop the cost if Patterson indicators a kind that outlines a security plan guaranteeing that her kids would at all times be beneath a watchful eye, the mom and her lawyer stated.
Patterson refuses to signal this kind and stated she’ll contest this cost that carries up a 12 months behind bars.
“This will not be proper, I did nothing improper,” she stated. “I’m going to combat for that.”
Patterson’s lawyer David DeLugas rhetorically requested if moms and dads now need to know the exact location of their kids always.
“Are all mother and father going to need to put GPS on their youngster?” he stated. “The mother and father get to determine for his or her kids until it’s unreasonably harmful.”
A rep for the district lawyer in Fannin County couldn’t be instantly reached for touch upon Thursday.