The cops picked up Aiden on his own block.Īs they stood on her porch, the officers told Wallace that her son could have been kidnapped and sex trafficked. That lady had actually asked Aiden where he lived, verified that it was just down the street, and proceeded to call nonetheless. Another officer was parked across the street.Ī woman one block away had called the cops to report a boy walking outside alone. There are sidewalks the entire way, and practically zero traffic.īut 15 minutes later, two cops knocked on Wallace's door. But her arrest remains on the books-easily searchable by employers-which is disastrous for someone with a Bachelor's degree in education.Īiden agreed to walk home after all, it was something he had done many times. She is finally able to speak out after completing a six-month pretrial diversion program to get the charges dropped.
'It really brought us into deep trauma,' says Wallace. She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison. 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.įor this she was arrested, handcuffed, and thrown in jail. 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.
