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1 Mile Mama Arrest · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, should
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  Speaker 1: the police have arrested that mama who let her son
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  Speaker 1: walk a mile from home? Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Mama, she said, and joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Now our American mama is Terry Needville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: This is a story out of Georgia, rural Georgia. There
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  Speaker 1: is a mother who was arrested because her son, her
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  Speaker 1: name is Britney Patterson. Her son, an eleven year old,
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  Speaker 1: walked to town. Now, they live on sixteen acres of property,
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  Speaker 1: so you know it's rural area. He walked into town,
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  Speaker 1: to the town of three hundred and seventy people, so
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  Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, he's walking in Manhattan or anything.
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  Speaker 1: And a shrif's deputy saw him. The sheriff saw him
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  Speaker 1: walking in town, and so they picked him up, drove
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  Speaker 1: him back home, and then arrested the mom for negligence
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  Speaker 1: because she allowed her eleven year old boy to walk
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  Speaker 1: one mile away from their home.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: What I think.
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  Speaker 3: Is interesting, Well, our kids had more freedom, We had
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  Speaker 3: more freedom. There's no freedom anymore for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these kids. But to me, this is What's interesting because
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  Speaker 3: this is one of many that I've seen lately where
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  Speaker 3: kids have left the home. It is really a subjective thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's whatever that police officer or sheriff is singing at
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  Speaker 3: the moment, and what their idea of what a child
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  Speaker 3: should be free to do. It's kind of like up
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  Speaker 3: to them, which is a little bit freaky. I saw
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  Speaker 3: this interview with this lady. She wrote a book. Her
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  Speaker 3: name is Leonora Genazi, but she wrote She's a mom
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  Speaker 3: that wrote a book called Free Range Kids, and she
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  Speaker 3: the big story about her was she had let her
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  Speaker 3: nine year old ride the subway and she said it
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  Speaker 3: was a very safe situation, but the same kind of
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  Speaker 3: thing happened to her. Even Law and Order did like
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  Speaker 3: a show based on her where the little boy dies
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  Speaker 3: on the subway, which her son did not. And she
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  Speaker 3: is being interviewed by John Stossel, and she was saying that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Journal of Pediatrics says that in this
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  Speaker 3: last decade, kidnapping and crimes against children are is drastically low,
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  Speaker 3: statistically drastically low. But what we're seeing is a drastic
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  Speaker 3: increase in kids having more anxiety and depression because we
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  Speaker 3: are now a culture of people. That her words, where
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  Speaker 3: we fantasize the worst case scenario in every situation we
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  Speaker 3: see a kid on the road, your first thought is
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  Speaker 3: that even ladies calling in to the sheriff in this
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  Speaker 3: particular situation, you know, this kid could be murdered. This
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  Speaker 3: kid could be kidnapped. He's right on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the road. So we fantasized the worst case scenario. Whereas
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  Speaker 3: if we go back to our own childhood, we walked everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: we went everywhere. My parents didn't know where we were.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so somebody like that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the sheriff's stapay.
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  Speaker 1: The sheriff actually as she picked up this kid, when
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  Speaker 1: she took it to the house, she said to the mom,
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  Speaker 1: he could have been kidnapped, he could have been.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I thought somebody called the police.
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  Speaker 2: No, I believe somebody may have.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, somebody call it in in the SHRIFFO.
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  Speaker 4: So he was a mile from home. He's eleven years old, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: and he lives on a lot of acres. She probably
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  Speaker 4: knows everybody. If it's less than five hundred people in
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  Speaker 4: the town, they probably all know each know. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Kimerly made this point. We did have more freedom What
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  Speaker 4: I didn't realize was there was actually more crime back then,
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  Speaker 4: especially towards children. Now we know so much. Now we
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  Speaker 4: see what's going on. So yeah, I'm terrified. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I was so talk about a helicopter.
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  Speaker 3: Mom.
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  Speaker 4: I would not let my child walk that far. I
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  Speaker 4: don't trust, you know, I just don't trust things that
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  Speaker 4: something wouldn't happen. But my question would be, why didn't
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  Speaker 4: the officer pick up the boy, take him back home
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  Speaker 4: and just say to the mom, Hey, I know that
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  Speaker 4: you're used to this, but we're seeing things in this
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  Speaker 4: county that are not good. I'm worried for his safety.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than the rest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to take you into custody, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's other ways you can do it, because
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  Speaker 4: this seems a little it seems kind of like overkill
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  Speaker 4: with regard to not only this, but think about that squirrel, Peanut,
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  Speaker 4: the squirrel that went you know, his story went viral.
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  Speaker 4: You had nine officers in New York. They've got all
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  Speaker 4: these crimes that are happening all over the place, Yet
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  Speaker 4: they're going to come and make this husband and wife
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  Speaker 4: and their pet raccoon and squirrel, you know, go through
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  Speaker 4: so much trauma and have to be there for hours.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't get to feed his horses. You know, everyone
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  Speaker 4: knows the stories, so you kind of start thinking, there
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  Speaker 4: are different ways you could have handled this. I understand
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  Speaker 4: that she was nervous, and my god, if something would
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  Speaker 4: have happened to that kid, the mom never would have
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  Speaker 4: forgiven herself.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, but you know you can have something happened to
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  Speaker 1: your kid at home, right, you know, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: walked to school every day in a life in elementary
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  Speaker 1: school at eight and nine. High school was more than
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  Speaker 1: a mile away from my house too. I walked up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll pill both ways in the snow. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to get out of my neighborhood, it's a mile to
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  Speaker 1: walk out of my neighborhood. Now, I let my kids
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere in the neighborhood. When when we were there,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's you know, a mile radius, absolutely, and they
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  Speaker 1: could go anywhere. That was I a negligent parent for
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  Speaker 1: letting my kids go, you know, walk around my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure, well, and I'll be so curious if
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  Speaker 4: she lets him go again.
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  Speaker 1: I think she should.
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  Speaker 3: She won't, she said, I've never She said, I'm never.
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  Speaker 1: Never Yeah, that's a shame because he's going to lose
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  Speaker 1: a lot of independence, and I think there's something good
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's going to be a lot of PTSD
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  Speaker 4: from this little incident with both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly brother listen, Thank you so much, Thank you