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Laws are of general application and then you apply the facts to them.  That's just the way the law works, in general. The facts are usually the most important part of the case.

So in this case, there is a general law that could apply to children unaccompanied in public.  One extreme is the Baltimore strip club at midnight, which we all agree is neglectful.  The other extreme would be, say, turning your back on your kids for a second in the grocery store, which we all agree is NOT neglectful.  In between is a lot of highly fact dependent grey area.  In this case, multiple reasonable observers thought these kids looked at risk because of the area they were in and what they were doing.  You're making a huge factual assumption when you say they were just "walking home from the park on Sunday afternoon."  The crux of the matter is what WERE they doing?  Were they walking safely home, or were they at risk?  That is what this is all about -- the facts, not the law.  You saying "they were just taking a walk" in fact ignores that the entire issue is what WERE they doing, and how?

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Nobody has said that they were doing anything other than walking home from the park*. Oh, and asking the 911 caller whether they could pet his dog. So I'm going to go with the assumption that what they were doing was walking home from the park.

*with not-clean clothes and uncombed hair -- on a child! imagine! [/quote]

And you're comfortable substituting your judgment for the judgment of the people who were actually there and actually saw what they were doing.  Miss Cleo, is that you?[/quote]

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