>CPS responded, he recounts, that "a 5-year-old child can never be unsupervised."

I would immediately move from that neighborhood and that city, if they do not have roots with neighbors or kids' friends. These are people who see her as a bad parent for letting their child outside the house.

>The James City County family services specialist assigned to Parkinson's case declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements. The prosecutor in the Commonwealth Attorney's Office for James City County said the same.

So the state doesn't have to answer to the public about why they interpret their laws to mean a 5 year old can never be alone. Show me the statute where there is an age cutoff.

Feels like these people made enemies, except that too many separate groups came down on her at once. What awful people.

I would have also immediately asked for their policy on how long children of different ages can be unsupervised.

Oregon pushes it all the way to 10.

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_163.545#google_vignet...

>A person having custody or control of a child under 10 years of age commits the crime of child neglect in the second degree if, with criminal negligence, the person leaves the child unattended in or at any place for such period of time as may be likely to endanger the health or welfare of such child.

I feel even if CPS or cops got involved, they can just take the kid home, no need to escalate things to charging the mom.

That said, there may be details we don't know here. This particular article is written from one bent, and the officials didn't comment on the case as is common in child-related prosecutions.

CPS type agencies all around the world wield immense power and are staffed by power hungry narcissists who get off on threatening to take parents' kids and coming up with demands they must follow