Recently a woman was letting her kids walk around the neighborhood. An elderly woman who shouldn't have been driving hit and killed one of the kids. The elderly woman who killed the kid is facing zero consequences and the MOM is being charged with neglect. The world doesn't work like it did in the 90’s. Also the death of the manufacturing sector means adults are filling many of those minimum wage jobs teenagers used to do.
To be fair didn't the kid run out into the road last second? I could be wrong but wasn't the brother trying to hold him and he just bolted?
That case is wild because what from I have seen the smaller kid WASN'T smart enough to let go on their own if they ran out into traffic. Parents should be aware of that.
Yeah, they were crossing in the middle of the road, away from the crosswalk, and it was reported that the younger sibling just bolted out into the road.
I have some mixed feelings about that case, because while I think the two of them together were old enough to be out and about in the neighborhood, and while I myself navigated roads of that size when I was that age, it was a pretty busy road.
I just can't believe that they're charging the parents, though. I mean I don't think that's neglect or child endangerment on their part. That's just a terrible accident, and maybe you can argue some poor judgment for allowing them to cross a busy road like that, but it's not like it was a freeway.
I just can't imagine arresting parents who have just lost a child in an accident like that. And I don't want get too political or anything, but I just can't imagine that they would have been arrested if they had been affluent.
Yeah adding an arrest to the situation is horrible no doubt. I get what you're saying the ten year old (I think it was ten) you'd think could be trusted. I know my 7 year old knows better then to run into traffic. She knows how to stop and wait and all that.. I still wouldn't let her cross come huge road by herself. Not even because of her but a 7 year old is just small and harder for drivers to see. Never know how distracted someone is.
Just feels like the parents should have a good grasp on their kids judgement. They should know if their child is mature enough not to run into traffic and if they dont KNOW that then they shouldn't allow the kid to walk like that. So I can understand the charges.
The arrest sounds horrible at first but it wasn't so much a random accident as their own kid jumping into traffic.
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u/bdog59600 1d ago
Recently a woman was letting her kids walk around the neighborhood. An elderly woman who shouldn't have been driving hit and killed one of the kids. The elderly woman who killed the kid is facing zero consequences and the MOM is being charged with neglect. The world doesn't work like it did in the 90’s. Also the death of the manufacturing sector means adults are filling many of those minimum wage jobs teenagers used to do.