2026年9月7日 美国东部时间晚上9:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：马克·斯特拉斯曼（Mark Strassmann）
弗吉尼亚州一名母亲就其因允许5岁儿子独自外出而被判虐待儿童罪名一事发声。
卡里安·帕金森（Karyann Parkinson）的儿子塞缪尔（Samuel）喜欢收集鹅毛。今年夏天，她让儿子独自步行半英里到当地一处池塘，去捡拾更多鹅毛。
“我允许他去的，”帕金森告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。“我跟他说：‘去吧，马上回来。’”
他们居住在威廉斯堡的 gated community 福特殖民地（Ford’s Colony）配有付费保安，其中一名保安在塞缪尔前往池塘的路上拦下了他，并护送他回家。
“保安说：‘我们不允许孩子独自在社区里乱跑。’我说：‘这是业主协会（HOA）的章程规定吗？我真不觉得这违反规定，’”帕金森回忆当时的对话。“他说：‘就算不违反规定，那也是违法的。我要报警。’”
事发当天，警方和儿童保护服务机构赶到现场，两周后，帕金森被指控犯有教唆未成年人犯罪罪。
“我们原本以为，只要案子交到检察官和法官手里，一切都会不了了之，”帕金森说。
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她后来被判处该项罪名成立，获得六个月缓刑。同时，她将被列入弗吉尼亚州儿童虐待和忽视登记名单七年。受此影响，在儿子升入六年级之前，她都无法参与儿子教室的志愿活动等相关事务。
弗吉尼亚州是全美13个拥有“合理儿童独立法”的州之一，该法律旨在防止州政府对父母的每项决定都指手画脚。帕金森表示，她计划对定罪判决提起上诉，预计听证会将于明年1月举行。
这项指控和定罪引发了网络上关于她育儿方式的争论。
“还有很多妈妈给我发消息，说她们也遇到过类似的事，这真的让我很意外，”帕金森说。
“我觉得，理想情况下，我们应该这样沟通：看到孩子自信又能干，那就到此为止，”帕金森补充道。“如果孩子看起来一切顺利，我们就不该插手干预。”
Mom found guilty of abuse for letting 5-year-old walk outside alone speaks out
September 7, 2026 9:40 PM EDT / CBS News
By Mark Strassmann
A Virginia mother is speaking out after her conviction on a child abuse charge stemming from her decision to let her 5-year-old son walk outside alone.
Karyann Parkinson’s son, Samuel, likes to collect goose feathers. So, over the summer, she let him walk half a mile to a local pond by himself to get more.
“I gave him permission to go,” Parkinson told CBS News. “I told him, ‘Go there. Come right back.’”
Ford’s Colony, the gated community where they live in Williamsburg, has paid security guards, one of whom stopped Samuel on his way to the pond and escorted him back home.
“The security guard said, ‘Well, we don’t permit children to be out in the neighborhood alone.’ And I said, ‘Is that in an HOA [homeowners association] bylaw? Because I really don’t think that’s against the rules,’” Parkinson recalled saying. “And he said, ‘Well, if it’s not against the rules, then it’s against the law. And I’m gonna call the police.’”
The police and Child Protective Services responded the day of the incident, and Parkinson was charged two weeks later with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
“We just expected that as soon as this gets in front of a prosecutor actually looking at it and a judge, this is all gonna go away,” Parkinson said.
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She was later convicted on that charge and given a six-month suspended sentence. She will also now be on Virginia’s child abuse and neglect registry for seven years. As a result, she can’t do things like volunteer for activities in her son’s classroom until he’s in sixth grade.
Virginia is one of 13 states with a reasonable childhood independence law, which is supposed to prevent the state from second-guessing every parental decision. Parkinson said she plans to appeal the conviction, which is expected to come in January.
The charge and conviction have sparked an online debate about her parenting.
“There’s also been, just unbelievable to get so many messages from a lot of moms who say that something similar has happened to them,” Parkinson said.
“I think that, ideally, we have a conversation, we see that a kid is confident and capable, and we leave it at that,” Parkinson added. “We don’t interfere with children if they seem to be doing just fine.”
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