https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/letting-kids-sight-becomes-crime/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/letting-kids-sight-becomes-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-320192 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:01:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=51573#comment-320192 […] “The long-awaited decision from Montgomery County Child Protective Services has arrived at the home of Danielle and Alex Meitiv, and it finds them ‘responsible’ for ‘unsubstantiated child neglect’ for letting their kids walk outside, unsupervised. If that decision makes no sense to you, either — how can parents be responsible for something that is unsubstantiated? — welcome to the place where common sense crashes into bureaucratic craziness.” [Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids] The “finding of unsubstantiated child neglect means CPS will keep a file on the family for at least five years and leaves open the question of what would happen if the Meitiv children get reported again for walking without adult supervision.” [Donna St. George, Washington Post] Earlier here and here. […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/letting-kids-sight-becomes-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-320060 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:43:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=51573#comment-320060 […] “When letting your kids out of your sight becomes a crime” […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/letting-kids-sight-becomes-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-319682 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:21:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=51573#comment-319682 It’s amazing that we criminalize what would never constitute ordinary negligence in the civil context. There is an appeal pending before the Georgia Supreme Court that addresses this very issue. The Defendant was convicted for failing to adequately supervise a child that drowned. There is little dispute that, if the case were civil in nature, summary judgment would have been granted.

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