By Joshua Krause
The nanny state is at it again this week. A mother in Maine was arrested and charged with child endangerment, after letting her young daughter play in a park near her house. Because of course we can’t have kids playing in a park right? That simply won’t do.
The playground was only a few hundred feet away, and could be seen from her front porch.
The local news interviewed the mother, as well the coddling, self-righteous police chief who threatened to take her daughter to the Department of Health and Human Services. Video below…
As Infowars noted, this is just one example of an alarming trend in America.
This is not an isolated case, it’s part of a disturbing pattern of parents across the nation being punished for allowing their kids to form any semblance of individuality and self-responsibility.
It should be abundantly clear now, that the government won’t rest until they’ve successfully raised a generation of helpless kids, who’ll only recognize the nanny state as their guardian.
freaking ridiculous!! Some moron called 911 because a 7 year old was playing by herself in a park?! Some zombie drone empty headed sheep that has bought into the panic non sense peddled by the media, the the cops cant just ask the kid where she lives? Un freaking believable.
its from infowars….for god sake. Just another dis-information outlet that hopes to propagandize your sentiments.
Seven is too young to be left alone in a park.
she was 15 feet from the porch? HELLO ? what planet are you on… At 7 i took the mini bus to the park alone
“The playground was only a few hundred feet away, and could be seen from her front porch.” There is no indication the mother was on the porch watching. And a playground may be a few hundred feet so she was perhaps a football field away from her house….no indication she was being watched. She could have been molested or kidnapped before mom noticed.
If your parents were careless with you, that is no defense of this mother.
In complete agreement with you dale.
Obviously if the cops don’t have something better to do than pick up kids playing in the park half a block from their homes, we need a LOT fewer cops.
The police got a call. What are they suppose to do, leave the unsupervised little girl there? And it was farther than just half a block away. What we need today is more parental supervision not fewer cops.
More sensationalized headlines from the alt media. The mother was not arrested for letting her little 7 year old daughter play in the park. She was arrested for letting her little 7 year old daughter play in the park ALONE (unsupervised). Why not tell the complete truth in the headlines? This is like the one where the headline said that a guy was stopped by police for driving a classic car when in fact he was stopped because the classic car was thought to be stolen.
“The playground was only a few hundred feet away, and could be seen from her front porch”.
What good is that if you are inside your house like the mother was and not even watching. And you can’t really see the park good from her front porch because of the big tree. The mother did not even know her daughter was taken. Luckily it was not by a child molester. And then the mother states that the neighbors usually are watching the children. Well I guess it was just this one time that they were not watching. A 7 year old is too young to be left alone, out of sight and unsupervised for that length of time. Some people on YouTube are saying “well when I was young” which was about 30 or 40 years ago… that was then this is today. Many people used to leave their doors unlocked too back then, but not today if they are smart.
And the police chief was not coddling, self-righteous as this biased article states.
She got arrested because someone snitched on her and because she was not a helicopter mom taking her child from event to event and scheduling play dates. Modern child rearing is all about constant control and total lack of freedom. Children need to be taught responsibility and get dirty and maybe even hurt once in awhile to help in growth and development, but I am afraid those days are over as we watch the America we once knew, dying before our eyes.
I would guess the same people arguing a 7 yr old who is in a park several hundred feet from her home, unwatched, is perfectly same are the ones who argue that each home must have a gun because the world is so unsafe, you need a weapon to protect your family
If I saw a 7 yr old alone in a park, I would begin to try to find the parents and if I could not, I would notify authorities as this is NOT safe in many neighborhoods. I don’t think it is safe to leave a 7 yr old alone IN THE HOUSE for any extended time (say to run to the store). A 7 yr old is totally helpless and cannot be left alone in a park hundreds of feet from the house with no one watching.
you know , this is maine, not sf deloras park? You are over reacting.
Last year, Maine had 1,700 violent crimes, 24 murders, and 450 rapes, and over 900 assaults. The rape rate (which would be a primary concern with an unwatched 7 yr old in a public park) is the same as the US overall. http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/me/crime/
In 2014, Maine had 19,200 reported cases of child abuse. maine.gov
The Portland Press Herald reported: (6/2014)
“After years of decline, the number of confirmed cases of the physical abuse of children in Maine has climbed dramatically in recent years – much higher than the national average……Confirmed cases of the physical abuse of children in Maine rose by 58 percent from 2011 to 2013, a reversal of a decline, both in Maine and nationally, over the previous two decades……The increase in Maine cases was even greater for children younger than 5. Those cases climbed from 241 reported in 2011 to 424 last year, a 78 percent increase, according to data provided by the state Department of Health and Human Services……The number of cases involving serious abuse also has risen, according to child safety advocates and state .”
So contrary to your assumption that Maine is much safer than the rest of the nation, the evidence is that physical abuse of children is higher than the national average. Thinking unwatched young children are safe, based on false assumptions is dangerous and puts them at risk.
This evidence is not “sensationalized headlines” but confirmed cases. 7 years old left alone and unsupervised in public parks are prey for child molesters and any parent who allows this should be held accountable.