Parent jailed for "leaving" 9yo child in park with her friends and their parents

[jim bell]

 On Sunday, March 8, 2020, 04:16:12 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
 
 The state of the USA:

  Forbidden Parenting
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forbidden-parenting
  https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2020/03/04/forbidden-parenting-n2562973

 >   South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald's.
 >   She couldn't afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work.

    [snip].

 >   In jail, they berated her.
  >    "You can't leave a child who is 9 years old in the park by herself!" said one officer. "What if some sex offender came by?"


In 1964, I was a "latchkey kid" at age 6 in Hyde Park, a suburb of Cinncinati Ohio.   I never got lost.
                       Jim Bell


  
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