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Mom Arrested After Son Walks to Small Town Alone
On October 30, Brittany Patterson was arrested after a passing driver called police upon spotting Patterson’s son Soren, just shy of 11 years old, strolling along a road alone, reported Reason’s Lenore Skenazy on November 11.
Around noon that day, Patterson had taken her oldest son to a doctor’s appointment. Soren, who was supposed to go along, was nowhere to be found. But Patterson, who lives on 16 acres with several other family members, wasn’t concerned. “I figured he was in the woods or at Grandma’s house,” she said. In reality, Soren was ambling down the road toward Mineral Bluff, a tiny town less than a mile from Patterson’s home.
A woman saw Soren walking along the road — whose speed limit varies between 25 and 35 miles per hour — and asked if he was OK. Although he said he was fine, the woman called the police. A Fannin County sheriff picked up Soren and called Patterson. “She asked me if I knew he was downtown, and I said no.… I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” Patterson said.
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