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While Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy waits for 12 jurors to decide whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children, a Virginia mother landed on her state\u2019s child abuse and neglect registry for letting her son take a walk.<\/p>\n

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Karyann Parkinson told her 5-year-old son, Sam, that he could walk down the street in their gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, to look for feathers. They had walked down that same street together hundreds of times, she said \u2014 including six times that morning \u2014 and at eight months pregnant, Parkinson just wanted to stay home and get lunch ready, so she allowed Sam to walk by himself.<\/p>\n

That short walk quickly set off a chain of events: someone saw the boy and alerted one of the community security guards, who took Sam home and scolded Parkinson for allowing him to walk alone, Reason Magazine reported. He also reportedly told Sam that his mother was wrong to allow him out alone and that bad people might do something to him if he didn\u2019t have an adult with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis scared the crap out of him,\u201d Parkinson explained.<\/p>\n

Later, a police officer arrived, and Parkinson made it clear she\u2019d had enough: \u201cI don\u2019t have any interest in talking to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then the cavalry showed up: multiple police and Child Protective Services (CPS) workers arrived at her home to investigate.<\/p>\n

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Parkinson called her husband to come home, and he did. \u201cI told [the authorities] that kids need to be able to take reasonable risks in order to grow up non-anxious,\u201d her husband said.<\/p>\n

Police charged Parkinson with \u201ccontributing to the delinquency of a minor.\u201d CPS investigated her for abuse and neglect, and because it ultimately found the allegations to be \u201csubstantiated,\u201d it placed Parkinson on the state\u2019s child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.<\/p>\n

After a judge convicted her on the above charge, he immediately suspended the sentence \u2014 but even though she will serve no jail time pending good behavior, the punishment for the mother is a steep one, and her conviction remains.<\/p>\n

The fact that her name is on the child abuse and neglect registry likely means that she will be barred from volunteering at her children\u2019s schools. Her conviction could also prevent her from getting her law license \u2014 she\u2019d also been preparing for the bar exam when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

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While Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy waits for 12 jurors to decide whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children, a Virginia mother landed on her state\u2019s child abuse and neglect registry for letting her son take a walk.Karyann Parkinson told her 5-year-old son, Sam, that he could walk down the street in their gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, to look for feathers. They had walked down that same street together hundreds of times, she said \u2014 including six times that morning \u2014 and at eight months pregnant, Parkinson just wanted to stay home and get lunch ready, so she allowed Sam to walk by himself.That short walk quickly set off a chain of events: someone saw the boy and alerted one of the community security guards, who took Sam home and scolded Parkinson for allowing him to walk alone, Reason Magazine reported. He also reportedly told Sam that his mother was wrong to allow him out alone and that bad people might do something to him if he didn\u2019t have an adult with him.\u201cThis scared the crap out of him,\u201d Parkinson explained.Later, a police officer arrived, and Parkinson made it clear she\u2019d had enough: \u201cI don\u2019t have any interest in talking to you.\u201dAnd then the cavalry showed up: multiple police and Child Protective Services (CPS) workers arrived at her home to investigate.Parkinson called her husband to come home, and he did. \u201cI told [the authorities] that kids need to be able to take reasonable risks in order to grow up non-anxious,\u201d her husband said.Police charged Parkinson with \u201ccontributing to the delinquency of a minor.\u201d CPS investigated her for abuse and neglect, and because it ultimately found the allegations to be \u201csubstantiated,\u201d it placed Parkinson on the state\u2019s child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.After a judge convicted her on the above charge, he immediately suspended the sentence \u2014 but even though she will serve no jail time pending good behavior, the punishment for the mother is a steep one, and her conviction remains.The fact that her name is on the child abuse and neglect registry likely means that she will be barred from volunteering at her children\u2019s schools. Her conviction could also prevent her from getting her law license \u2014 she\u2019d also been preparing for the bar exam when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nMom Lands On Abuse Registry For Letting Her Kid Take A Walk - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2907\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mom Lands On Abuse Registry For Letting Her Kid Take A Walk - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy waits for 12 jurors to decide whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children, a Virginia mother landed on her state\u2019s child abuse and neglect registry for letting her son take a walk.Karyann Parkinson told her 5-year-old son, Sam, that he could walk down the street in their gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, to look for feathers. 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