Teddy Allen Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You've heard by now that on October 30 in rural Georgia — we're talking rural like a cow might be in the two-lane and Dollar General is the busiest spot in town — a mom of four was arrested for letting her son, 10, walk alone down a familiar road an almost-mile into town. As of now, Brittany "Where'd They Go?" Patterson, who is 41 and appears to be a healthy and otherwise sane mom except for the part about letting a boy walk around in his Mineral Bluff hometown, population 350, is refusing to strike a plea deal because she did "nothing wrong." Upon her arrest, she expressed "shock," "anger," and "frustration.
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We were born at night, Brittany, but not LAST night! Nothing WRONG?! Brittany, do you think we are all living under some rural rock that you are? Just because the other kids in America in general and Fannin County in particular aren't tethered to the porch doesn't mean YOURS shouldn't be. Oh the humanity! Some kids get all the breaks. I'm old enough to remember when, if we didn't get out of the house, and pretty much stay out during the daytime, our parents would have had US arrested.
When we were children, some of our parents (I'm thinking mine specifically but pretty sure I speak of yours too) now and then just turned themselves in at the police station. "They won't get out of the house," they'd tell the sheriff office, wrists extended for easy cuffing. "Sentence me to the max.
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