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This was a townhouse.... so the neighbors probably were annoyed that there was some noise keeping them from their restful sleep.  All they had to do was open their window and ask the kid if he needed help.  Instead, they called the police.

We don't know what the kid did before this punishment and we don't know how long he was out there.  He could have been destructive -- who knows.  At 10 yrs old, they are too big to pick up and put in their rooms for time out.  There are circumstances where I would say this is neglectful (i.e. if he had been left out there for a long time).  But, assuming he was out there a shorter amount of time, I think this was madness.  And I bet he is more scarred by knowing that his tantrum caused his mother to be taken away by the police.

It's strange to me that we seem to allow parents (especially men) spank, slap and hit their kids as "corporal punishment" but here this woman simply separates the child for a period of time in a safe space and she's hauled off to jail.

I know of two situations that happened in the last year where a mom filed for a protective order b/c the dad in one case hit the kid on the head with a snow shovel and the other the dad slapped the kid hard across the face and in neither case did the judge grant the protective order.  Here the kid is simply mad and the mom gets hauled off to jail and loses her job.

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