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[Michael] Tang, a chemist who was feeling frustrated with his 8-year-old son for cheating on homework, decided to teach him an important life lesson – that money is hard to earn and slacking off at school could mean not having a home someday. Tang dropped Isaac off in a parking lot one mile from home and told him to walk the rest of the way. It was 7:45 p.m. in Corona, a city near Los Angeles, and the sun had barely set. Isaac knew the route home and was familiar with using pedestrian crossings.
When Tang sent his father to get Isaac after 15 minutes, the child already been picked up by police, alerted by someone who thought he was in danger because he was alone. Tang was arrested and spent the night in jail; but the punishment did not end there. Reason reports:
"A jury later convicted him of child endangerment, and the judge sentenced him to parenting classes and a 56-day work release program picking up trash and doing other menial work."
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday April 22 2017, @03:23AM
I hate to link to "that other site," but I don't feel like copying and remaking all the links, etc. to a long post [slashdot.org] I wrote a while back on how crazy this is getting in the US. TFA is indicative of things that happen very frequently. Parents arrested when an 11-year-old is seen playing outside alone IN HIS OWN YARD. That sort of thing (see my link). The U.S. has lost its mind about child safety, especially when stats show that rates of stranger abductions (which were never common) have been going down for decades, long before the Amber Alert paranoia even started.