{"id":6787,"date":"2014-08-01T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2014-08-01T19:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:16:11","slug":"another-mom-arrested-for-sending-her-kid-to-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/01\/another-mom-arrested-for-sending-her-kid-to-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Another mom arrested for sending her kid to the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m totally dumbfounded by this whole situation,\u201d says Nicole Gainey. She\u2019s not the only one. The Port St. Lucie, Florida, mom was arrested on Saturday for letting her 7-year-old son, Dominic, walk alone \u2014 in the daytime, with a cellphone \u2014 a half-mile to a local park. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t think I was doing anything wrong,\u201d she says. \u201cI was letting him go play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his approximately 10-minute walk, the boy passed by a public pool, where a patron asked him where his mother was and other questions. As he told a local news station, \u201cI got scared and ran off to the park, and that\u2019s when they called the cops.\u201d Police picked up the boy at the park, brought him home and arrested his mother for felony child neglect. In their report, police noted that \u201cnumerous sex offenders reside in the vicinity.\u201d Gainey says the cops \u201cjust kept going over that, you know, there\u2019s pedophiles,\u201d which sounds to me like the kind of problem that perhaps there\u2019s a better approach to than whisking kids off playgrounds and arresting mothers. The state\u2019s sttorney\u2019s office notes that there is no law regarding how old children can be before they can travel unaccompanied.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry140801-231259\">Another mom arrested for sending her kid to the park \u00bb Megalextoria: News and Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m totally dumbfounded by this whole situation,\u201d says Nicole Gainey. She\u2019s not the only one. The Port St. Lucie, Florida, mom was arrested on Saturday for letting her 7-year-old son, Dominic, walk alone \u2014 in the daytime, with a cellphone \u2014 a half-mile to a local park. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t think I was doing anything wrong,\u201d she says. \u201cI was letting him go play.\u201d During his approximately 10-minute walk, the boy passed by a public pool, where a patron asked him where his mother was and other questions. As he told a local news station, \u201cI got scared and ran off to the park, and that\u2019s when they called the cops.\u201d Police picked up the boy at the park, brought him home and arrested his mother for felony child neglect. In their report, police noted that \u201cnumerous sex offenders reside in the vicinity.\u201d Gainey says the cops \u201cjust kept going over that, you know, there\u2019s pedophiles,\u201d which sounds to me like the kind of problem that perhaps there\u2019s a better approach to than whisking kids off playgrounds and arresting mothers. The state\u2019s sttorney\u2019s office notes that there is no law regarding how old children can be before they can travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}