I worked for Florida's Child protection system sometime ago. I responded to a report that a child about the same age of this one was walking home from school by himself and being left Home alone.
There is no magical age at which children become mature enough to handle a situation like the one described in the OP, rather the investigator is expected to do a good investigation and use common sense. Some people don't have any, which might be the case where the mother was arrested.
Frankly, I think many things in this country are out-of-control, this is just another example of everything is screwy and haywire. From what news we have in this case, the arrest was heavy-handed, inappropriate, and ridiculous.
@buggy..news says the kid called cops because well-meaning grown ups grilled him about what he was doing and where he was going. Then the police showed up, now imagine you are 7 and called the police because people hassled you.
Then the police say, " what's your date of birth?" .....authority figures do lousy interviews of kids.
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