[Vautrin]

That is sad.

The problem is you can't blame the boy or the mother for the fact that others make fake calls to the emergency services. And all means for discerning whether a call is fake or real, cannot be 100% accurate - as this case demonstrates.

It would make a case for only weeding out the obvious prank calls, and checking calls like these. The worst thing that could have happened, is that the services get there for nothing - but that does not mean that
a) if this was misuse of the alarm service, that the caller cannot be identified, nor charged with the bill
or b) that nothing was the matter (think diabetes for instance).

In the best case, they would save a life.

We can't expect a six-year old kid to be able to diagnose what is wrong with a person. Nor that a six-year old will be able to collect an adult (mind you, beware of strangers!), to get to the phone, and make the call. What is the kid supposed to do? Get a car, and drive to grandma?