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Originally Posted by chubeyr1
Raise your own kids and instill your values into them. This is not your child!
You have as much right as I do with this child. None!
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It isn't about rights. It's about legal requirement.
Every single person in Alberta is required to report to the police or a director (child welfare), if they have reasonably belief that a child could be in danger. This is the law.
Textcritic was reasonable to assume a 15 year old who is refusing to go home could be in danger especially as Textcritic considered the parents actions to be erratic. Reasonably expecting the child to be in danger and not calling the police would be criminal. He could face up to 6 months and a $10,000 fine.
Admittedly, I would be shocked if a situation like Textcritic described would have resulted in the charge outside of the child going home and being assaulted (or worse). It would be near absurd. But it is the law:
https://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/c12.pdf
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4(1) Any person who has reasonable and probable grounds to
believe that a child is in need of intervention shall forthwith report
the matter to
(a) a director, or
(b) a police officer.
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(6) Any person who fails to comply with subsection (1) is guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine of not more than $10 000 or to
imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months, or to both a
fine and imprisonment.
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