11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents. – Hit & Run : Reason.com

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“This is indicative of the kind of police state society we are turning into. When I was a boy I would walk miles downtown alone to go to a movie on Saturdays and be gone for hours, I would walk a few miles to go to school everyday by myself and this was considered completely normal. My how times have changed and not for the better.”  Admin

One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I’ll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn’t have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested for negligence.

They were put in handcuffs, strip searched, fingerprinted, and held overnight in jail.

It would be a month before their sons—the 11-year-old and his 4-year-old brother—were allowed home again. Only after the eldest spoke up and begged a judge to give him back to his parents did the situation improve.

I spoke with Cindy about her family’s horrible ordeal.

“My older one was the so-called ‘victim,'” she said during a phone interview. But since she and her husband were charged with felony neglect, the younger boy had to be removed from the home, too

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