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Originally posted by butthead
Why especially a child? It's not like they've even lived and babies are made all the time. I see the killing of an adult to be of higher consequence seeing as how you lose out on all that was invested in the persons life.
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A child has the potential to grow up and change lives for the positive, whereas a shriveled up old man has probably already contributed all that he really will to society. Therefore, the death of a child is generally more harmful to society than the death of an elderly [wo]man.
As for trying to learn of this guys intent, does it really even matter? If he accidentally forgot that his child was in the car (which many parents on this board find impossible to believe), he is still responsible for the death of his child and still must face criminal consequences. Whether it is gross child neglect or murder in the first degree really doesn't matter, since the child is already dead and nothing will change that. In either case, this guy has shown that he cannot be trusted to be in the care of children, and should be restricted from interacting with or being responsible of anyone under the age of 18. I think that, along with the knowledge that he baked his own child to death in his car, would be a fair punishment.