Arizona Mom Threatened With Prison, Placed on Secret Blacklist For Letting Kids Play At the...

Arizona Mom Threatened With Prison, Placed on Secret Blacklist For Letting Kids Play At the Park

It was a little more than a year ago—right before Thanksgiving, as COVID-19 raged—that Jessica committed her crime: She let her 7-year-old son and his friend, age 5, play at the park while she went to buy a turkey. For this, she faced criminal charges, as well as being listed for 25 years on Arizona's Central Registry, a secret blacklist that functions similarly to the sex offender registry but is less publicly accessible. What, exactly, transpired that day? Due to the pandemic, the kids weren't keen to go into the grocery store and Jessica wasn't that keen to let them. ...

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