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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1678151" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t" target="_blank">11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>An interview with two parents who lost their kids... over nothing.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>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 11-year-old son 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.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>They were put in handcuffs, strip searched, fingerprinted, and held overnight in jail.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>It would be a month before their sons—the 11-year-old and his 4-year-old brother—were allowed home again. Only after the eldest spoke up and begged a judge to give him back to his parents did the situation improve.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Cindy and Fred cannot be sure who called the cops and turned their lives upside down. (They have their suspicions.) But they do know who told them they needed to take parenting classes, get therapy, and promise never to let their kids play in their own backyard without a watchman again. They know who took their children away.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>( well who ever called the cops must have been watching the kid play in his own yard , so technically he was under a watchman's eyes ) </strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t" target="_blank">http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t</a></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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