LETTER: A child walking alone isn’t cause for panic

Las Vegas — Bambi L. Koch, a Las Vegas resident, sent a letter to the editor dated September 29, 2026 at 9:01 p.m., challenging Sherry Hobbs’ September 23 piece titled “Danger walk.” In her correspondence Koch stated: “I disagree with Sherry Hobbs’ Sept. 23 letter, “Danger walk.”” She continued: “She is “seeing” facts not contiguous successful the existent editorial. She does not cognize whether that half-mile locomotion successful Virginia by the 5-year-old was on a engaged thoroughfare oregon connected a agrarian lane. Nor does she cognize of the maturity of the children involved.” Koch then recalled her own childhood experience: “I retrieve myself astatine 5-years-old walking each astir my hometown. I knew and followed the rules of walking on successful postulation and crossed railroad tracks. I was ne'er approached by a alien and, if I was, I knew not to speech to them.” She concluded with her perspective on parental discretion: “I judge it’s a idiosyncratic prime whether to let children to locomotion alone. Only a genitor understands the level and maturity of a child. Governments should not beryllium progressive successful these choices.”