Kids Playing Outside is a Crime: CPS to Mom “Don’t let them play outside.”

[Chopped54]

Reading the insert from her "blog", seeing her picture, and the fact that this all happened in Austin leads me to believe she is a naive hippy cunt.

As others have said, six is way too young...

[GhostTX]

Reading the insert from her "blog", seeing her picture, and the fact that this all happened in Austin leads me to believe she is a naive hippy cunt.
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They're all for bigger government until they realize their rights are stripped away.

[inline 6]

I am sorry but 6 is too young to be 150yds from the house unsupervised anywhere.

[jdgregory84]

I have pretty vague memories of being in the 1st grade age, riding my bike to my friends houses that were blocks away. Definitely more than 150 yards. For calling this woman a "hippie cunt" y'all sound like a bunch of pussies.

[Cooter]

I used to walk to and from school in 1st grade

[Samhain]

I used to walk to and from school in 1st grade

Same here, but that was 1980

[Nash B.]

I have pretty vague memories of being in the 1st grade age, riding my bike to my friends houses that were blocks away. Definitely more than 150 yards. For calling this woman a "hippie cunt" y'all sound like a bunch of pussies.

Count the red flags:

Austin, Texas – Children’s book author, Kari Anne Roy, received an unexpected visit from Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Austin Police Department recently. She was being investigated for allowing her son Isaac, 6, to play outside unsupervised.

Isaac and his eight-year-old sister had been playing outside at a park bench about 150 yards from their house, which is visible from their home’s front porch. When the sister came in the house the boy continued to play.

The child had been outside for all of 10 minutes when there she heard her doorbell ring. When she opened the door, expecting her son, there was a woman standing there that Roy didn’t know.

According to what Roy wrote on her blog, HaikuMama, the stranger asked,

“Is this your son?”

I nodded, still trying to figure out what was happening.

“He said this was his house. I brought him home.” She was wearing dark glasses. I couldn’t see her eyes, couldn’t gauge her expression.

“You brought…”

“Yes. He was all the way down there, with no adult.” She motioned to a park bench about 150 yards from my house. A bench that is visible from my front porch. A bench where he had been playing with my 8-year-old daughter, and where he decided to stay and play when she brought our dog home from the walk they’d gone on.

“You brought him home… from playing outside?” I continued to be baffled.

And then the woman smiled condescendingly, explained that he was OUTSIDE. And he was ALONE. And she was RETURNING HIM SAFELY. To stay INSIDE. With an ADULT. I thanked her for her concern, quickly shut the door and tried to figure out what just happened.

Of course everyone knows there are many busybodies in the world, perhaps the rare sight of a child actually playing outside startled the woman, as it’s getting to be an uncommon occurrence for children to actually play outside in this day and age.

Roy, although slightly annoyed, most likely wouldn’t have given the busybody a second though, but shortly afterward her doorbell rang again.

“She wanted to know if my son had been lost and how long he’d been gone,” Roy said in an interview with Reason. The officer also wanted the names of her kids and her I.D.

Roy’s kids were upset and worried that their mom had been questioned by police. Roy went on to explain that later that night her son Isaac cried when not able to get to sleep once in bed. “He thought someone was going to call the police because it was past bedtime and he was still awake.”

For a child to have to see their parent questioned by police for the innocent act of allowing a child to play outside without a security detail in tow is preposterous.

About a week later a CPS agent showed up at the Roy residence and proceeded to interrogate each of her three children separately without either parent present, asking if they had seen pornographic movies, ever been given drugs or alcohol, how often they bathed, and if there is fighting in the home.

Because the kid’s story matched their mothers as well as the officer’s account, the case was closed and marked a non-event. But Roy was warned that the neighbor can call CPS as many times as she wants and there is basically no recourse.

Roy blogged that,

“It makes me feel like we are prisoners in our own home. It makes me feel helpless and at the mercy of someone I don’t even know.” She went on to say, “How do we make sense of the dichotomy that our country is safer than it’s ever been and yet small town police departments have tanks and automatic weapons? How do we teach our children that it’s OK to play outside and to learn on their own, to enjoy a taste of freedom – but to be very, very careful when wearing a hoodie especially if they have dark skin?”

In Roy’s final conversation with the CPS investigator, she asked, “What do I do now?”

The reply from the investigator, “You just don’t let them play outside.”

The message from the state is clear, either you keep your kids locked up in the house or you very well may be the one locked up.

Roy has chosen to not let the state dictate her parenting, as she told Breitbart,

“When I wrote the post I was upset and was very keen on not letting my children back outside to play. But now, they’re back out on their bikes. And if we have to deal with the neighbor calling the police, we’ll deal with it. I do not want to help propagate this feeling that children are unsafe unless they are tucked under the wings of their parents. I want children to play, to learn, to explore. And I think pretty much everyone else does, too. So that’s my advice – let your children play without you. Maybe we can change the culture.”

This situation is a testament to where we are at as a society and as a nanny state. Common sense completely disappears and the government wastes precious resources on investigating innocent people. The intrusion of a state agency into parental decision-making is sickening. Thankfully Roy is choosing to not let the oppression of the state change how she raises her children.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pol...lU5tykSLcSp.99

[Cooter]

Same here, but that was 1980

fml... solid point

[jdgregory84]

Count the red flags:

Have you ever lived in Austin? I have and do. Most of the people I meet aren't the super liberal hippies that most people think of when they think of people that live here. The most liberal thoughts here are "I like weed and support abortions." I say "Who doesn't?" I actually don't smoke but don't give a shit if some irresponsible teenager aborts her baby who might be genetically exposed to criminal behavior, if that's possible. Nobody that I've talked to here has said anything bad about guns. Why? Guns are fucking awesome. So she has a blog...I'm pretty sure some KKK members have blogs. Probably some WBC people too. Are they liberal? She writes kids books? She's a woman! She's not smart enough to write about books for adults. Leave that shit to men.

Austin has a street that's known for crazy parties, clubs, and concerts. Dallas has Oak Lawn. What is that place known for?

FYI: I'm not saying that there aren't liberal people here, but I've lived here for a while and it's not the "blueberry in the cherry pie" that Rick Perry says it is.

[jdgregory84]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-mom-for-letting-child-play-outside/

So the chick looks like a hippie, but everything she says makes perfect sense to me. The fact that this country has become so afraid of itself is fucking stupid. Maybe the difference is that when I was young and playing away from my house, my neighbor sent their kids outside to play too and we all played together. It's a lot harder to kidnap a dozen kids playing soccer or street hockey in the street than one or two kids playing next to a park bench. So is the lady who allows her kids to play outside at fault, or all the other parents who don't allow, promote, or just flat out fear their kids playing outside at fault?

[Nash B.]

Austin has a street that's known for crazy parties, clubs, and concerts. Dallas has Oak Lawn. What is that place known for?

Flaming liberals.

[jdgregory84]

Flaming liberals.

Those flaming liberals only believe that they have rights. I guarantee you at least half of them share the same beliefs you do besides the whole gay marriage thing.

[SS Junk]

Being in DC I have worked with multitudes of them, and I can assure you the mindset of a liberal is something to behold. Especially when it comes to preaching their beliefs. The way they are wired is nothing like that of someone who retains a little common sense.

[Nash B.]

Those flaming liberals only believe that they have rights. I guarantee you at least half of them share the same beliefs you do besides the whole gay marriage thing.

Dallas County and Travis County are both liberal, but gay marriage is one thing I agree with them on (or at least don't disagree with).

[GhostTX]

I used to walk to and from school in 1st grade

I walked to school from kindergarten through 3rd grade. That was when I lived in CA, no less.

Times, they a' changed.