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I don't know the family at all, but I can't stop thinking about them. It took me a while to stop crying for them this morning. Perhaps it is because I can so easily put my family in their family's shoes. If you don't live in NYC, you might not even know about the family of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Lost on the way walking home from day camp, the little boy made the fateful mistake of getting into the car of Levi Aron who has confessed to killing and dismembering him.
This incident is disturbing on so many levels. I have this internal battle regarding at what age I will let my sons walk home alone anyway. It's not as if I think that I can protect them from everything. I know that bad things happen even when parents are around. I don't know though...I think this incident has set my kids' freedom back a couple of years. Leiby was lost walking home from his day camp in the "safe" Borough Park neighborhood. This whole violent incident began to unfold when he asked Aron for directions. Not that murderers are rational, but there is no rationale behind the violence to this innocent child.
What about you...at what age would you feel comfortable letting your child walk home from school/camp/etc. alone? (I know that everything is a case by case/kid by kid basis, but I'm just looking for some generalities.) As of now, I informed my husband that my sons can walk home alone when they turn 18 or graduate from high school/whichever comes first....and I was only half joking!
Kimberly/Foodie City Mom
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