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Originally Posted by lazycash
I agree, and I'm sure she was convicted because witnesses showed she was negligent by allowing her kids to dart out in the middle of traffic. Also, the thread title is not accurate, nowhere does it say the guy was "drunk". He admitted to having had drinks and being on medication the night of the incident, but because he fled the scene there's no way to know what his blood alcohol level was.
As a parent I can't imagine trying to cross a busy street and not restraining my child by holding their hand and crossing with them and certainly not crossing outside the crosswalk. She allows her first child to dart across the road without her, then watches as her second child follows shortly after and gets killed, you would have thought she would have at least restrained the second one before he ran out.
As a follow up to this story, she was not sentenced to any jail time, but received 12 months probation. http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/26/...er.sentencing/ |
I'd have to agree as well. We don't know all of the story as the press is notorious at doing this to create the 'buzz" they need. What I DO see here are two separate crimes and treated as such. Yes, drinking and driving is bad and even though we all do, we also all know it's bad and most wished we hadn't latter. But who is to say whether or not this child could have been saved if he had not been drinking.
But then again, there is the part of responsible parenting. You put your child in harm, even if that harm is someone acting outside the law, you still put your chile in harms way. In the end, could this child have been saved by not walking through traffic?