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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 dwelling.
Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested on suspicion of reckless conduct on Oct. 30 over her son’s unsupervised stroll, in keeping with the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office.
Patterson had taken one other son to a health care provider’s appointment when she left her son Soren, now 11, alone at their dwelling within the rural city of Mineral Bluff, NBC News reported. After somebody reported Soren’s wandering, deputies situated him and drove him dwelling.
“It’s not an excellent harmful and even dangerous-at-all stretch of highway,” Patterson informed the outlet. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his security.”
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Still, deputies returned to the house later and positioned Patterson underneath arrest.
In bodycam footage obtained by ABC News, deputies may very well be heard telling Patterson she is underneath 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 dwelling. (Fannin County Sheriffs Office)
“And how was I recklessly endangering my youngster?” Patterson requested.
Another deputy responded, “We’re not speaking about it,” earlier than handcuffing the mother.
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Patterson and her lawyer stated that authorities provided to drop the cost if she signed a security plan that included utilizing a GPS tracker on her son’s cellphone.
The mother stated 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 dwelling or one thing unsafe about my parental selections and I simply do not consider that,” the mother informed ABC News.
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Patterson was launched on $500 bail and will resist a 12 months in jail underneath the cost.
