HI-Father arrested for making his 8 y/o walk part of the way home from school

[Anti Federalist]

Father arrested for making son walk one mile home from school

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/robert-demond/

KILAUEA, HI – A father was arrested when he gave his son the “old school” punishment of walking one-mile home from school to think about what he had done.

Robert De Mond, 36, said that when he picked up his 8-year-old son from school, he refused to tell say what had earned him a punishment from teachers. The Star Adviser reported what happened next:


“I asked him, ‘Why were you in time-out at A-Plus?’” De Mond said. “He told me, ‘I don’t know.’ I asked him again and he said, ‘I don’t know.’”

He told his son: “I don’t know is not an answer. You need to take responsibility for your actions. There has to be a reason that you were placed in time-out.”

A mile from their house, he dropped his son off and asked him to “please walk home. When you walk home, you will have an answer better than ‘I don’t know.’ And when you do come home you’ll have an answer,” he said.

De Mond said the stretch of the two-lane roadway — Kuhio Highway — is in a safe, rural area with acre-size agricultural lots, and a wide shoulder, 10 to 25 feet wide, where it’s not uncommon to see people walking or riding their bikes.

In many people’s lives, walking to get places isn’t a punishment, it is a daily reality; the norm; how one gets places. However in Police State USA, a parent who allows their son to walk somewhere is arrested.

When a neighbor picked up the boy and called police, Mr. De Mond was arrested at his son’s school. He was charged with second-degree endangerment of the welfare of a minor. Mr. De Mond pleaded no contest.

The judge, Kathleen Watanabe, ruled that the punishment was “old-fashioned” and inappropriate. Walking was considered a punishment too severe to inflict on a child. Parents who discipline their children with walks risk criminal charges.

“These are different times,” Judge Kathleen Watanabe scolded, according to the Garden Island. “It is understandable that you became upset with your son, but it is dangerous for children to walk along the highway, and there are predators out there.”

Mr. De Mond was ordered to take parenting classes, pay the government $200. He is on probation for a year. If he is caught walking his son anywhere he risks jail time.

“It’s been pretty hard on the kids,” De Mond commented, adding that the family just wanted to put this behind them.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

From the article: "Judge Kathleen Watanabe scolded, ...'it is dangerous for children to walk along the highway, and there are predators out there.'”


The irony is thick.

[Danke]

Just shoot me and get it over with.

http://www.midweekkauai.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/101229/cover_2.jpg

[Occam's Banana]

So apparently, highways and predators didn't used to be dangerous ...


“These are different times,” Judge Kathleen Watanabe scolded, according to the Garden Island. “It is understandable that you became upset with your son, but it is dangerous for children to walk along the highway, and there are predators out there.”

Boogity-boogity! (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452134-Where-quot-Boogity-boogity-quot-originated) /inb4 tod evans ;)

[alucard13mm]

A generation of pussies, self-entitlement, feeling of invincible group of americans are being grown.

Maybe if the judge give out harsher sentences and keep pedophilers and molesters in prison, there wouldn't be predators out there.

That kid is gonna grow up messed up thinking he is untouchable.

[tod evans]

So apparently, highways and predators didn't used to be dangerous ...



Boogity-boogity! (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452134-Where-quot-Boogity-boogity-quot-originated) /inb4 tod evans ;)

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Occam's Banana again:o

[fisharmor]

From the article: "Judge Kathleen Watanabe scolded, ...'it is dangerous for children to walk along the highway, and there are predators out there.'”


The irony is thick.

Right?
This is something that needs to be said every single time until people start to get the point..........
That kid WAS targeted by a predator.

Three of them, in fact. The neighbor who called the cops, the cops, and the legal system.

[Suzanimal]

The judge, Kathleen Watanabe, ruled that the punishment was “old-fashioned” and inappropriate. Walking was considered a punishment too severe to inflict on a child. Parents who discipline their children with walks risk criminal charges.

:rolleyes:I walked to and from school everyday and I turned out just fine.:)

[John F Kennedy III]

I used to walk 6 miles home from school cuz I didnt feel like taking the bus.

[tod evans]

I used to walk 6 miles home from school cuz I didnt feel like taking the bus.

Terrorist!

[mrsat_98]

:rolleyes:I walked to and from school everyday and I turned out just fine.:)


I used to walk 6 miles home from school cuz I didnt feel like taking the bus.

So does that mean you won't need a ride to the FEMA camp ?

[mrsat_98]

:rolleyes:I walked to and from school everyday and I turned out just fine.:)


I used to walk 6 miles home from school cuz I didnt feel like taking the bus.

So does that mean you won't need a ride to the FEMA camp ?

http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bombshell-fema-camps.jpg?w=450

[69360]

My kids used to walk 2 miles home from school on nice days when they didn't feel like taking the bus. I've also got pissed off at them for fighting in the car and made them walk the rest of the way home.

I am a dangerous criminal. :rolleyes:

[phill4paul]

At least he wasn't flashbanged, tased, pummeled and had his dog shot. He got off light.

[Christian Liberty]

My kids used to walk 2 miles home from school on nice days when they didn't feel like taking the bus. I've also got pissed off at them for fighting in the car and made them walk the rest of the way home.

I am a dangerous criminal. :rolleyes:

I don't even know what to say anymore. I just want to laugh at all the "free country' comments. Most people have no clue what they're talking about.

[Root]

At least he wasn't flashbanged, tased, pummeled and had his dog shot. He got off light.
Someone should write a strongly worded letter or something.

Walking, wow...

Beach ball kids... Ok. FFS, I need a drink

[aGameOfThrones]

So a stranger picked the 8-year-old and called the police on the father? The stranger could've been a....*puts on glasses* predator.

The father should have taught his kid not to get in cars with strangers, let alone an asshole neighbor.

[DGambler]

'Murica, fuck yeah, love me some of this freedom.

Walking is a punishment? Then there are thousands of schools around the country, and rec leagues, etc that are criminal.... What, with all the soccer, football, basketball and any other sport that's played there are thousands and thousands of coaches that need to be hauled off now.

That judge should be tarred and feathered.

[TruckinMike]

Freedom comparison: In 1970 when I was in kindergarten I walked 1.5 miles home from school everyday. My mother made me where a key to the house on a string necklace...I continued walking until we moved -- in the third grade. Then I started riding the bus. It was not odd, many kids did the same.

[Czolgosz]

Praise be to government!

[phill4paul]

Freedom comparison: In 1970 when I was in kindergarten I walked 1.5 miles home from school everyday. My mother made me where a key to the house on a string necklace...I continued walking until we moved -- in the third grade. Then I started riding the bus. It was not odd, many kids did the same.

That can't be possible. You would surely have died. ;)

[TruckinMike]

...And sometimes I walked to where she worked which was another mile down the road. The most horrific thing that ever happened was walking past the juniper shrubs and being attacked by swarms of mosquitoes (when I accidentally rubbed against them). I would take off running to escape the melee. LoL.

[oyarde]

That Judge is not competent or capable of judging others.

[fr33]

It's amazing that humans exist today given that people have been walking to destinations since this new terrorism thing was invented. Don't blame the judge, she's just a victim of "affluenza". Her only hardship was that her parents might have drove a pontiac.

[oyarde]

It's amazing that humans exist today given that people have been walking to destinations since this new terrorism thing was invented. Don't blame the judge, she's just a victim of "affluenza". Her only hardship was that her parents might have drove a pontiac.

The Natchez Trace was over 400 miles .

[Henry Rogue]

Hillary said "It takes a village to raise a child." The village idiots are deciding how best to raise children.

[Schifference]

I grew up in New England. There were and still are some massive trees. When I was very young before age 5 I could/would play with neighbors all day and come home at dinner time. We walked all over and explored. OK so let's say that walking on the road today is more dangerous than it was when I was a kid. I actually agree that today the roads are more dangerous for pedestrians. A few years ago I purchased a bicycle and quickly realized that riding a bike on the roads in my town today is dangerous. When I was a kid I rode my bike for many miles in any given direction. But let's forget about road travel. What would happen today if a parent lets their 5 year old kid outside to play on their own fenced in property and the kid decides to climb one of those massive trees and god forbid a neighbor sees the kid way up at the top? When I was little I loved to climb trees and would go as high as I could get. The ground has not changed and neither have the size of trees. I bet you that today neglect/abuse charges would be levied on any parent that allowed their child to climb trees. I would even bet if the parent was outside supervising the climb charges would be filed.

What about dangerous sports? Can children today learn to ride dirt bikes and or compete in super cross or motocross? What about mountain climbing or snow skiing?

Can your youngster operate a potentially dangerous device like a circular saw or a lawn mower, weedwacker, chainsaw? http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/April6-Sept6088_zpsfd16d6c4.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/April6-Sept6088_zpsfd16d6c4.jpg.html)http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_0040_zpsbf04b79e.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_0040_zpsbf04b79e.jpg.html)http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_0043_zpsf9792558.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_0043_zpsf9792558.jpg.html)

[Henry Rogue]

I grew up in New England. There were and still are some massive trees. When I was very young before age 5 I could/would play with neighbors all day and come home at dinner time. We walked all over and explored. OK so let's say that walking on the road today is more dangerous than it was when I was a kid. I actually agree that today the roads are more dangerous for pedestrians. A few years ago I purchased a bicycle and quickly realized that riding a bike on the roads in my town today is dangerous. When I was a kid I rode my bike for many miles in any given direction. But let's forget about road travel. What would happen today if a parent lets their 5 year old kid outside to play on their own fenced in property and the kid decides to climb one of those massive trees and god forbid a neighbor sees the kid way up at the top? When I was little I loved to climb trees and would go as high as I could get. The ground has not changed and neither have the size of trees. I bet you that today neglect/abuse charges would be levied on any parent that allowed their child to climb trees. I would even bet if the parent was outside supervising the climb charges would be filed.

What about dangerous sports? Can children today learn to ride dirt bikes and or compete in super cross or motocross? What about mountain climbing or snow skiing?

Can your youngster operate a potentially dangerous device like a circular saw or a lawn mower, weedwacker, chainsaw? http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/April6-Sept6088_zpsfd16d6c4.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/April6-Sept6088_zpsfd16d6c4.jpg.html)http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_0040_zpsbf04b79e.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_0040_zpsbf04b79e.jpg.html)http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_0043_zpsf9792558.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_0043_zpsf9792558.jpg.html)

Nice scaffolding and pick in the bottom picture, all my scaffolding is of the conventional type and I don't have any picks, just standard planks. By the way, on a commercial construction site, safety directors will write you up for carrying materials or tools up a ladder the way your Son is in that picture.

[jbauer]

:rolleyes:I walked to and from school everyday and I turned out just fine.:)

How many times did a predator get you?

[jbauer]

Hillary said "It takes a village to raise a child." The village idiots are deciding how best to raise children.

Hell, under that statement the neighbor owed the kid a ride.

[Demigod]

Hillary said "It takes a village to raise a child." The village idiots are deciding how best to raise children.

Even if it takes a village to raise a kid ,if the kid can not walk trough the village alone than that village is hardly capable of raising him.

[VIDEODROME]

Hillary doesn't know what she is talking about. Villages are not friendly places.

I think this guy originally coined the term Global Village and his thoughts on it are interesting to me. It makes me think unifying the world bringing us closer together is a disastrous idea.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvATW2nfYZg

[jkob]

Should of said he was following Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign

[Seraphim]

“These are different times,” Judge Kathleen Watanabe scolded, according to the Garden Island. “It is understandable that you became upset with your son, but it is dangerous for children to walk along the highway, and there are predators out there.”



Such as nosy neighbors, cops and over-zealous judges? Got it.

[tod evans]

Neighbor needs a good asswhuppin'.....

[Schifference]

Nice scaffolding and pick in the bottom picture, all my scaffolding is of the conventional type and I don't have any picks, just standard planks. By the way, on a commercial construction site, safety directors will write you up for carrying materials or tools up a ladder the way your Son is in that picture.
Don't do it for a living. I own that house & we were living in it at the time.
Here is what it looked like when I bought it. http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_2546_zps1eddac04.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_2546_zps1eddac04.jpg.html)http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p730/wdr61/IMG_2544_zps4d96ef40.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/wdr61/media/IMG_2544_zps4d96ef40.jpg.html)

[DevilsAdvocate]

It's unbelievable how women have used the court system to inflict their version of child care on everybody. Any form of discipline is always unacceptable and the father is always to blame. We are raising crops of limp wristed weaklings. Soft minds, soft bodies.

[Mani]

Ya. I walked home for school as well. I think around 3rd or 4th grade. Sometimes in the Winter...With Snow! OMG! :eek:

We had the bus, but sometimes a few of us walked home from school...For Fun. It was a mile or two.

And many times I wanted to participate in after school activities I had to walk home, in the summer I sometimes took various sports activities and had to walk back and forth on my own.

Heck even in High School I remember once I walked to school to take the bus to an after school soccer game, but was late and missed the bus...Then just hung around school for a while and walked back home. And if I ever missed the school bus going home...again, just walked home. It wasn't that big of a deal. The times it sucked when I had 30 pounds worth of books to take home because of a lot of homework. Sometimes that was rough. LOL, but somehow still made it.

[bunklocoempire]

http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y442/bunklocoempirehi/cloudatlashawaii_zps706e505a.jpg

"Oh I like this a whole lot. A gang running the Island is definitely the way to go."