8-year-old boy killed

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Who knows how many kids this age have this kind of freedom.

I agree.

Yet, giving a child this type of freedom has always come with risks. Kids got abducted and murdered when I was a kid despite the freedom we were given. And my parents didn't give us the ultimate freedom. We were allowed to roam the neighborhood while playing different sports. We weren't allowed to hang out at each other's houses without parental supervision, be around adults without preapproval, or be in any environment that could defy the freedom our parents gave us.

Before the information superhighway, what happened to this 8 year old boy would not have been on my 7:00am news and on the Internet-accessible news agencies.