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Originally Posted by TeresaM  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. |
Yes, absolutely! A parent should be held responsible when their 7 year old leaves the house and does something bad at an odd hour. They should know where he is and should have control but clearly this is an unusual situation so who really knows what was going on. The worst part is we can discuss who's responsible or not but it's happened and now it's a matter of getting past this horrible incident!
