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Setting aside the outrage-inducing headline, in fact there's numerous registered sex offenders in that town: https://www.city-data.com/so/so-Killingly-Connecticut.html https://www.city-data.com/so/so-Danielson-Connecticut.html

and there does seem to be a substantial amount of violent crime: https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-east-killingly-ct/

https://www.google.com/search?q=crime+map+killingly+ct

I have no comment about whether the arrest or social worker were appropriate in this situation - we're only hearing one side.

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I've been to Killingly several times and find it completely non-credible that it's unsafe for kids to walk there.

The raw number of sex offenders / violent crime rates don't tell us much about the safety of a kid walking in a particular neighborhood at a particular point in time.

Additionally, I'm not sure how arresting a kid's parents is supposed to make anyone safer...

Indeed. I had a friend in college from Gary, Indiana which at the time was perennially near the top of the homicides per-capita lists. He said that he learned at a young age which neighborhoods to avoid and felt generally safe in the "good parts" of town.

Both the police and the DFC dropped their charges. What information could there be that we still need to hear from the other side?

So the inhabitants lose the right to go for a walk?

Enforced by the same who did not manage to prevent the circumstances?

Not sure how you can look at that second link and conclude it has a "substantial" amount of violent crime. The overall crime rate, and the violent crime rate, are both rated at "A-" levels, which is on the good end of the scale, not the bad end.

I mean, ffs, this is from the link:

"By a simple count ignoring population, more crimes occur in the northwest parts of East Killingly, CT: about 0 per year. The north part of East Killingly has fewer cases of violent crime with only 0 in a typical year."

We're hearing the side of the parents. They live there. It's their kids. What other side do you need to hear?

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