[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

The Gilmer Mirror - Rutherford Institute Defends Florida Mom Arrested Handcuffed Searched Jailed for Allowing Her 7 Year Old Son to Visit Playground Alone

Hurray!
The Rutherford Institute is going to defend Nicole Gainey!

https://www.rutherford.org
"Absurd, bureaucratic police state"

I am glad to hear this too. We will have to see how this case turns out.

I and I will bet others really appreciate your input on situations like this one given your experience. Letting a kid walk by a park with known pedophiles is kind of stupid but the cops are supposed to keep sex offenders away from parks frequented by kids. Of course, there are always sexual perverts who have not been caught yet.

I did a lot of babysitting of Tal, Tar, and Zac in the Palm Harbor, FL area for about 4 years or so and would always keep a very close eye on them because Florida has fire ants, wasps, alligators, etc., also to worry about. And pretty heavy traffic in some areas.

[Pointer]

In the 25 years I lived in Vermont, it went from being a place where you left your keys in an open car, to being fined for leaving your kids in the car even if your just run in for a quick beverage.

I don't know what effect all this is going to have on our children. I worry that kids can't explore the world around them the way we did and that not everyone in the neighborhood has the same values. It seems to me that we need to respect our differences maybe more so then at any other time. Face it, we were privileged and that makes it hard to relate to todays transitional world in so many ways.

I suppose that is much the way our great grand parents felt about our modern ways too.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I am glad to hear this too. We will have to see how this case turns out.

I and I will bet others really appreciate your input on situations like this one given your experience. Letting a kid walk by a park with known pedophiles is kind of stupid but the cops are supposed to keep sex offenders away from parks frequented by kids. Of course, there are always sexual perverts who have not been caught yet.

I did a lot of babysitting of Tal, Tar, and Zac in the Palm Harbor, FL area for about 4 years or so and would always keep a very close eye on them because Florida has fire ants, wasps, alligators, etc., also to worry about. And pretty heavy traffic in some areas.

Tal, agree, ,
Police arrest mother because the pedophiles have taken over the park this city built for her son play in.
I'm not sure I believe that it's true pedophiles are present there, I think it's just a way to nitpick law in order to make an overzealous arrest.

[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Tal, agree, ,
Police arrest mother because the pedophiles have taken over the park this city built for her son play in.
I'm not sure I believe that it's true pedophiles are present there, I think it's just a way to nitpick law in order to make an overzealous arrest.

The seriously disturbing part of this case is that there is NO specific law that this mother violated. This type of intrusion by government is beginning to be a daily occurrence.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker

The seriously disturbing part of this case is that there is NO specific law that this mother violated. This type of intrusion by government is beginning to be a daily occurrence.

Indy,
I've read everything available without paying to look at criminal records and so on. Law says charges of felony neglect can include exposing the child to known sexual offenders and predators..that's a loose paraphrase.

So if you lived in Hemingway, and let your grandchild walk the dog around the block, you'd be in a heap of trouble. Of course everybody reads the sexual offender list every day, right?

Venting.....and sympatico, Indy, I used to be proud to be an American, where at least I used to be free...

Hello NSA? Goodbye, NASA.

[mrbgull]

Amen