ATLANTA, Georgia (PNN) - November 29, 2024 - On Oct. 31, Brittany Patterson, a 41-year-old Georgia mother, was arrested and accused of endangering her son - all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home. Patterson told NBC News in an interview, “It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road. I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”
Nevertheless, the sheriff’s department went to the family’s home, where Patterson was handcuffed, arrested, booked on suspicion of reckless conduct, and forced to post $500 bail.