The free-range parenting fracas continues. According to an interview posted on free-range expert Lenore Skenazy’s website, two Florida parents are facing felony charges for…allowing their son to play in their yard while waiting for them to come home from work.
Skenazy wrote:
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 son, 11, 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.
“Cindy” and “Fred” were charged with a felony, and their two sons were sent to live with a woman who is described as a “problematic relative,” who refused to bring the children to visit their parents. She eventually grew tired of caring for them, and sent them back into state custody, where they were fed cereal and not much else.
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