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A Virginia mother was convicted of misdemeanor for allowing her five-year-old son to walk alone to collect feathers in their gated community. She’s now on the V…
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In Japan kids of this age go to kindergarten by themselves.
So much for a village stupid dum people this is so sad
Buddy system is BEST. I agree but I feel that now a days it is not SAFE for boy or girl to be walking alone due to child trafficking. I’m sorry but 5 is really young. Mine did not walk to a school bus alone at age 5. You said he looked frightened with the security guard. I know he hadn’t done anything wrong but imagine how frightened he would have been if it wasn’t just a security guard and someone meant him harm.
This is 2026 not 1985. You can’t let your little child ROAM unattended & go running around a community and think that they’re going to be safe.
Maybe someone in hoa is protecting a pedo
If you want your child to go missing, do what she did! 🤦🏾♀️
I understand needing to keep a watchful eye on children under a certain age… but this is downright ridiculous. <br><br>Who wants to bet that the Karen(s) who filed this complaint grew up in an era where they were out until the streetlights came on or the cowbell was shaken? 🤔 <br><br>I thought we wanted our kids OFF phones and playing/exercising outdoors?!?! 🤦🏻♀️
If this case is valid, my single dad essentially turning myself- 9- and younger brother into "latch key kids" in 1961. He was often traveling on company buisiness, a neighbor was sort of our "watcher", but only in a very loose sense- basically, brother and I raised ourselves. That had some bad points to it - but a no point was it unsafe. <br>Fred
Five IS too young.
Aussie here, don't understand how anyone would live in a HOA community. They only exist in the good old UA of A 😂
Went through similar stuff 30yrs ago with my kid, nosey neighbors. My 37yr old has unfortunately always been independent, bossy, took over mom roll. If you knew my kid you'd know there was no other option. Even today...smh.
Complete BS! Government over reach
I walked to Albuquerque one time……I live in Alabama. 😅whats the big deal here?? Sheesh
Why are any people having more than 3 children? It's ecologically irresponsible. Adopt. <br>You are probably a great mom. I don't know that CPS immediate involvement was needed. However no matter how able you believe your 5 year old to be our current world is not safe for children under 10 to go outside your property anywhere alone. Even if your child knows not to go near strangers, not to cross the street etc. a child of that size alone could be taken, So easily.
Latchkey kid here. Survived fine and have lived a successful life. Glad I was capable and knew how to take care of myself.
Gated community doesn't mean it's 100% secure. Criminals have ways of getting inside. Because it didn't happen before doesn't mean it will never happen, it only takes one successful abduction, then she'll have to blame herself for the rest of her life. If she's so confident that she is willing to take that risk it's her choice. But it's always confident risk takers that would suffer the consequences.
WTF???
I was walking a mile to school when I was around 7-8 years old. That was across a 4 lane road and multiple blocks away. I’d walk 3 streets up to my best friends house when I was 6. We lived a mile outside of DC.
Well, He Could Of Gotten Snatched!!?? Or He Could Of Drowned!!?? Nowadays You Have To Be Very Careful With Your Kids Safety!!🙄
FK HOAs
So the security guard and the HOA believe your community is too dangerous for a 5 year old to collect feathers on their own? Why do you live in such a dangerous neighborhood?
Americans don't see the irony of living in HOA's (with all their woke restrictions) whilst claiming to be free!!!
What the hell?!
And now she is a criminal just like millions of other Americans for complete and total bullshit. We must burn this system to the ground!
While U5A government is krilling children in Gaza.
Seriously? I roamed the nieghborhood all the time to my friends house 🏠 with friends or by myself. What the heck has society come to ? We are raising weakness and creating a tolitarian state. F Hoa !
5 is too young!!
All this does is make it harder for people to trust security guards, CPS, and cops
Many countries in Northern Europe like Finland are so safe that the vast majority of children walk to school without parents. This was inside a gated community. Let people be parents. This was completely commonplace in the decades passed. Gen-X kids basically raised themselves from 5+😅 So much for "FREEDOM"🙄 Totally overblown.
How ridiculous. Completely overprotective. People should mind your own damn business.
I’m thankful that she’s a woman defending herself against trying establish boundaries, withdrawals syndromes etc etc
Personally I think 5 is too young to have them go off on their own. There are just way too many weirdos out there.
America is hell and rapes and enslaves women 🇺🇸
I’m glad the security guard checked on the kid. That was the right thing to do but DUUUDE, that should have ended there! This guard and system are now endangering this family FFS!
The second amendment says you don't have to be pushed around and bullied by rogue authorities like this
Interesting because i see small kids who look 5 walking home from school when i get my daughter, it drives me crazy!!! Also, 5 is too young! Think youd be dancing to a different beat if he got taken by a pedo
Yet Clancy hasn't been convicted for murdering her three beautiful children 😢
I was sent to the store with a dollar by myself to buy a gallon of milk all the time! I and many others walked to & from school without adult supervision every day!
He was a little young to be alone in my opinion. It's not him, it's other people. I walked without parents at that age, but only with other kids. Never totally alone. The pond is another problem. Can he swim? What if he fell in?
What the hell? Is this how we protect children these days? From what?
Sounds like the kid wasn't in "serious, obvious danger" and the security guard scared him more than anything. My siblings and I used to wander all over the neighborhood in the 90s, it was a GOOD experience
I was out on my bike and playing from 1st grade on. We had to be home before the street lights came on. We were the last independent and problem solving generation.
And then if he went missing........?
A security guard….
Can’t let a kid walk home alone but you can have pedophiles run the country.
And they want kids to get off the phones.
Although the child is capable, there are predators in our nation. The child could have easily been abducted or worse.
America hates women.
Sounds absolutely fine. People are causing distress over nothing.
I walked a half mile alone when I started kindergarten ! My parents taught me what to do and not to do !
same people are crying for genx nostalgia where they run feral as child bike mobs drinking hose water
She is facing what she deserves to get. You NEVER let a kid that age walk alone to a pond!! Wild. Walk alone a couple of blocks? WILD!!!
People need to see what real child endangerment is. This is not cutting it.
when i was 6 i was coming home to an empty house cooking an oatmeal snack and walking around my complex to play with my friends Before my parents got home from work.... I'm sure he was fine
my dad and his brother hopped a fence and teased their neighbor's donkey when they were 8 and 9. They walked to raspa stands and played street footy for hours everyday. Nowadays kids live hermetic lifestyles and play fortnite all day, bc their parents are too afraid to let them even go outside to pick up parcels.
Boy my momma was disabled, I did everything from grocery shopping to errands on my own. What are we even talking about here?!? So stupid. The kid is fine. It’s literally a GATED COMMUNITY
This woman seems like a great mother who knows more about her children than most other people. If she believed her son was capable, he likely was. Why don't we focus more attention on people who are quite literally beating the crap out of their children right now?
WTF? 🙄 No shade, but White "gated community" folks.... y'all really need to get a grip if this is the kind of sh!t you're focusing on.😂
I was riding my bike at 8yo to the city pool alone.
HOAs promote suspicion of and spying on neighbors. Karens on patrol.
OMG we get criticized for helicopter parenting Our kids, we get criticized for being friends with our kids.We get criticized for everything we do with our kids.Mind your own [ f___g] business. Unless they're being abused physically or mentally abused , leave people the [ f__k ].alone
Yet the Clancy gal has a fanbase...
Much ado about nothing. 🤔
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