Suburban Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for Making 8-Year-Old Son Walk Half a Mile Home
Suburban Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for Making 8-Year-Old Son Walk Half a Mile Home Heather Wallace plead guilty to child endangerment and can no longer work with kids. LENORE SKENAZY | 11.16.2022 10:01 AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share by email Print friendly version Copy page URL Heather Wallace's oldest son, 8-year-old Aiden, was driving his two brothers crazy in the car as they all returned from karate one afternoon in October 2021. Wallace asked Aiden to walk the rest of the way home—half a mile in quiet, suburban Waco, Texas—so that he could calm down. For this she was arrested, handcuffed, and thrown in jail. She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison. "It really brought us into deep trauma," says Wallace. She is finally able to speak out after completing a six-month pretrial diversion program to get the charges dropped. But her arrest remains on the books—easily searchable by emp...