Who in the world leaves a baby that small in a swing and then leaves the room to take a nap with a large dog roaming the home??? Those swings can cut off circulation, babies can scoot way down or fall to the side and put them in terribly uncomfortable positions, etc., and the swing even fail with one leg collapsing, not to mention that the dog is going to potentially find the infant a plaything or worse! What in the world? Was the guy on drugs or alcohol or what was going on that would cause him to leave a tiny infant unattended in a swing like that? I cannot imagine what that mother was confronted with when she walked into that room to find her little baby dead like that! That woman will never ever get over that. Nor, probably, will that 7 year old. Even if they totally shielded his visuals, he's old enough to know what happened. What a tragic and horrible story!!! What a terrible death that little thing had - all alone, frightened of that big animal on him, hurting terribly.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |