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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 dyingtolive on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:45AM
Yeah, I think I walked about a mile in the 90s from time to time. Eight years old is, what, third grade or so? I was homeschooled at that point but I'm reasonably sure that I had a friend who's house I walked to that was about a mile away. I'll have to check it out on google maps.
...yeah, middle of Monument Ave to 7th Street across from Enos park in Springfield, IL. I walked about a mile by myself about that age. I mean, slightly less, but what's a tenth of a mile at that point? Cue a year from then when we moved out into Even-Smaller-Town, USA and I walked almost exactly a mile to school ever single day. With a valley in the middle, so parts of it actually WERE technically uphill both ways. Ermehgherd, child abuse, right?
My only means of rationalizing the article is to remind myself that it's California, and that it's not subject to logic as humans would recognize it.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!