🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after a Virginia mother of FIVE has been CONVICTED of a crime, sentenced to 6 months in jail, and placed on the CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY for 7 years...
...because she let her 5-year-old son walk half a mile to the pond in their GATED community to collect goose feathers.
Yes, you read that right...
Her name is Karyann Parkinson and she is probably the furthest thing from an "unfit mother" you will ever meet.
She has a degree in family science. She was a family life educator. She spent three years as a live-in behavioral specialist caring for 35 troubled girls. Her husband is a family therapist.
They moved to Virginia so she could go to William & Mary LAW SCHOOL.
This past June, eight months pregnant and studying for the bar, she took her boy Sam on their usual bike ride to the pond.
When they got home, he asked to walk back for more feathers.
Just a half-mile walk home on a sidewalk with ten feet of grass between him and the road.
Two crosswalks he'd used hundreds of times, inside a gated neighborhood with 24-hour security and a 25 mph speed limit.
She said yes, and she made lunch.
A stranger saw a kid walking and called security.
The guard marched Sam home and told this 5-year-old that his mommy did something wrong
His mother says it "scared the crap out of him."
Then the guard called the cops. Then the cop called backup.
Within minutes: THREE police cars. Three officers. A security vehicle. Two CPS workers. All at one mother's front door.
For a kid walking home on a sidewalk
CPS told her husband, "a 5-year-old child can never be unsupervised."
Never. Not for one minute. Not in a gated community. Not on a sidewalk.
That is the government's position on YOUR children.
They put her on the child abuse and neglect registry.
Seven years.
They charged her with "contributing to the delinquency of a minor."
A charge meant for parents who let their kids do drugs and skip school.
Last week, a judge convicted her and she got six months in jail, suspended and a permanent criminal record.
She can likely never volunteer at her kids' school again.
She may never be allowed to practice law.
What are we doing here????
Kids used to walk to school ALL THE TIME.
I used to ride bikes with my friends until till the streetlights came on... no one ever knew where I was and it didn't matter because this WAS AMERICA.
Now a five-year-old can't walk to a pond without three squad cars and a criminal conviction for his mother???
We've criminalized childhood...
JUST IN: Locals fear a Lindsay Clancy copycat incident has taken place in Frankfort, Illinois, after a 2-year-old child was murdered.
Police are calling the incident a "domestic-related homicide."
The child's mother was found "attempting self-harm" and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"This is just absolutely devastating, that this could be another Lindsay Clancy situation in our neighborhood, in our community," one local parent said.
Just saw an Instagram reel that said:
“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”
And that shit just fucked me up.
Satellite imagery helps pinpoint where the disaster occurred, while footage from two CCTV cameras captures what happened on the ground along the Nepal–Tibet border.
Nepal has reported 162 deaths and 865 missing, while Tibet has reported 3 deaths and 550+ missing.
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
Patrick Clancy’s 911 call is devastating.
My heart breaks for him.
911 Dispatcher: Explain how she tried to commit suicide. (multiple voices are heard) Where is she now? Stay awake. How old is she?
Patrick Clancy: 31-33.
Dispatcher: Is she awake?
Patrick: Yes.
Dispatcher: Is she breathing?
Patrick: Yeah. Lindsay, what did you do to your neck? She’s talking.
Dispatcher: When did this happen?
Patrick: In the last half hour.
Dispatcher: How far did she fall?
Patrick: 20 feet. (multiple voices are heard)
Dispatcher: Is she responding normally?
Patrick: A little bit. Wake up!
Dispatcher: What part of the body was injured?
Patrick: Her neck. … She’s breathing. Lindsay, look at me! Look at me!
Dispatcher: Are there weapons?
Patrick: I don’t see any. Where are the kids? (multiple voices are heard)
Dispatch: Do not move her.
Patrick: Open your eyes. Can someone – OK, Lindsay, look at me. Open your eyes.
Dispatcher: I’m going to tell you how to stop the bleeding.
Patrick: It’s not bleeding … open wounds. She’s in the backyard.
Dispatcher: Is there something on her neck? A knife or something? Can you put pressure on it?
Patrick: No. (multiple voices are heard)
Patrick: Lindsay, wake up. (moaning is heard)
Dispatcher: Put pressure on the cut.
Patrick: Lindsay, look at me. Say my name. She’s conscious.
Dispatcher: Don’t move her. Tell her to be still. (Whimpering is heard in the background, as well as sirens in the distance.)
Dispatcher: I’m going to stay on the line with you. Is there a fence?
Patrick: Right here, right here! … I need you to stay, and I’ll go check on my kids.
Patrick: Hello? (footsteps are heard) Guys? Guys? Oh, no! (yelling is heard) Oh, no! (more yelling) Wake up! (Patrick is heard screaming).
Dispatcher: What is he screaming about?
Patrick: (Crying, screaming and gasping) OH, MY GOD! (more screaming)
Dispatcher: Hello? What’s going on?
Patrick: Basement! Basement! OH, MY GOD!
Dispatcher: Hello? hello?
Patrick: (Screaming. Screaming, Screaming.) AHHHHH, SHE KILLED THE KIDS!!! OH, MY GOD! (Screaming. Screaming. Screaming. Screaming.) Dawson! My buddy! (Screaming)
Dispatcher: “Oh, s***.”
Please pray for Patrick.
Nepal floods: Aerial footage shows the devastating aftermath.
At least 97 people have been killed, while 403 people from 27 countries remain unaccounted for.
Among those reported missing are 62 Nepali citizens, 133 Indians, 47 Americans, and 33 Britons.