© Liberty Blitzkrieg
The first one relates to two parents charged with "reckless endangerment of a child," for letting their two boys play on a Cape Cod beach for an hour unsupervised.
From Reason:
Moving along, we find ourselves in Florida, a state which always provides a disproportionate amount of "this can't be real" type stories.Parents who let their boys, ages 7 and 9, play on their own for an hour at a family beach will be arraigned later this month on charges of reckless endangerment of a child.
Charles Smith and Lindsay Pembleton of Niagara Falls were vacationing with their kids on Cape Cod. The boys wanted to stay at the beach for a little longer rather than walk back to the nearby campground (which is, according to one commenter, accessible via a car-free path). The parents said okay, but told them they couldn't go in the water, according to The Cape Cod Times.
By the time a lifeguard spot the children, they were—gasp—wet from the rain. What's more, they were "standing around a food truck with no adults in charge."
Thankfully, the police were called before any of that wetness and unsupervised food trucking could escalate into something worse.
Even though over 90 percent of sex crimes against kids are committed by people they know, not random beach inhabitants, the cop decided to file reports of suspected abuse or neglect in both Massachusetts and New York. And, for good measure, she also "applied for criminal complaints against them in Orleans District Court."
Comment: This guy sure is an interesting addition to the Moscow police force!