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Originally Posted by mblab  That was just my opinion and I am respectful of anyone that agrees or disagrees with what I said. I do agree with you in that any child that does horrible things should place some responsibility (not necessarily blame) on their parent(s). Especially at such a young age, a parent should have control and know enough of where their child is and what his behaviors/mental health status is.
Someone that truly has Antisocial Personality Disorder has little hope. There's very little that can be done to stop them and there's very little that can be done to "help" them. |
I see that basically we agree. This is a very sad situation, there are no 'winners' here. Most of all the child losses. However, the parents
are responsible. I'm not placing blame but responsibility for this incident on the parents. Like I said I wonder if the parents had noticed him missing and were looking for him, we don't know that, the report doesn't say. Or how far do they live from the zoo. Just how long was this child alone without parental knowledge or supervision. We don't know these things and that would help a lot to tell if the parents were/are trying to do everything they can.
I'm not passing judgment, or trying to place blame, that is not for me to do. But I wonder how a 7 year old child can be gone from someones care, be it parent, sitter, day care, etc for a minimum of 30 minutes. My concern is if he is
not being cared for properly that he gets whatever help is available. And if he is being watched after and cared for that the parents get as much help as they can, because it's got to be exhausting dealing with this type of child 24/7.