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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Setting aside this issue of whether it is right or wrong for the kids to be on their own in this park , I really don't know what the parents were expecting in this situation after what previously happened.  They are well within their rights to advocate to have this law changed, but until it is, they've chosen to live in a place where this is the law, and by disregarding it after their kids were picked up by the police, they are the ones who have set the kids up for an unpleasant interaction with the police.[/quote]

This has little to do with the "law." There is no specific law about how old kids have to be to be out in public alone.  (locked in a car or left in the home, yes. In public, no) They are completely at the mercy of the judgement and discretion of busy-body strangers, the police and CPS.

I absolutely am certain that if these kids were black or hispanic and were playing in the same park or crossing the same streets, nobody would call the police and CPS would not get involved. I say this because I live in Silver Spring and see it all the time. [/quote]

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