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For another perspective, here is the local news story where I first heard about this- https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-mother-arrested-after-ch...

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My thought as I read it was that there are always multiple sides to the story.

Can you please summarise for those of us who can't access it from outside the US?

https://archive.md/jKJjz

I'm not sure it's much of a different take. She was arrested for reckless behaviour for not reporting the son missing within 1h when she knew he ran away on his own. (Georgia has no minimum time for missing person reports, she claims she didn't know about that process)

It's a shame that so many TV shows propagated the myth that you should wait 24 hours to report a missing person. The first 24 hours are the most critical!

It was true though and was a common policy. It definitely lives in the back of my mind, but I don't think I've seen any new movie mentioning in for a really long time.

It’s a very common trope in procedural crime dramas still.

From my memory they always said 24h for adults in movies. Kids never had a time limit in csi or similar shows

I wouldn't expect people in crisis to be attentive to nuance.

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