“She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison.”
An 8-year-old walked half a mile home from karate in Waco. His mother got handcuffed and charged with a felony. CPS closed its own case in two weeks as unfounded. She still had to do 65 hours of community service to make the charge go away, and she lost her job. Texas passed a law protecting this exact thing in 2021 and forgot to fix the criminal code.