“I found out later from my husband that after I went inside, the arresting officer said to him, ‘If she talks to me again, I’m going to arrest you both and take away your kids.’”
Two kids, ages seven and nine, made it about two blocks toward a donut shop in Killingly before four officers showed up. Police charged both parents with risk of injury to a minor, then dropped it days later and admitted the law was “open to interpretation.” DCF opened its own case anyway and used the mother’s old therapy for depression against her. The only danger anyone in that family ever met on those streets wore a badge.