tisonlyi

The article is all set up to pin responsibility on the father after a tragedy. Nice. Do we have any idea, aside from sketchy relative positions, of what really happened? Everyone knows that life is more complicated than it's painted in articles like this.

I don't know exactly what happened, the quoted policeman doesn't know, the journalist doesn't know and you don't know. We have some details, framed in a particular manner by the journalist for their own ends.

Was the driver singing, with closed eyes, to a beautiful line from a song important to them? Was the father taking an important call and distracted for a moment? Anyone who has been around kids knows there are times that you lose track of them. It happens. It is NOT negligence in anything but the pedantic sense.

This is a tragedy, plain and simple, likely nuanced with numerous facts that our gracious supplier of ground-out-page-filling-words-to-a-deadline in the media has decided to paint out, for whatever ignorant or (ig)noble reason.

Doesn't running from the point you're left at to judgement and apportioning of blame seem a tad ghoulish and righteous?

Some relatives of the deceased might well be regulars of this forum.

Matthew 7:1

I hope the father - and mother - find a way to cope with their loss.

I hope the driver finds a way to sleep at night.

I hope the little one didn't suffer.

For the rest, I don't know.

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