You heard me correctly, apparently we here in North Carolina, do not care if parents make decisions that lead to their childs death. I know, crazy right?
But have a read of this article and you will see what I mean.
Now, one can assume (possibly) that the mother was a single mother doing her best to support her child. The article states that she was working a double
shift and had noone to care for the child while she was at work. So she decided to leave him in the car.
“She told him to stay in the vehicle and use the diapers if he needed to go to the bathroom,” Wijewickrama said. “And he did. He died listening to his mom.”
Her 8 year old son died because of a decision she made. And while she may have thought leaving him in the car was the lesser of possible evils, it was
still a bad decision.
And sure you can use the argument that “losing a child is punishment enough” And in her mind I am sure that anything else would be adding insult to injury.
Hell, if I was responsible for my son’s death, you wouldn’t have to worry about me facing any charges or being convicted. I couldn’t live with myself. No way,
no how. But the bottom line is she caused the death of her son.
If a bartender over serves a person and they go out and kill someone or get killed themselves, that bartender can be held responsible, and they might
not even be directly responsible for the life lost. She was, she was directly responsible for the life and death of her child.
It is a truly sad story. It sucks that a child has lost his life. It sucks that a mother has lost her son. But how are we to teach our children that there
are consequences for their actions if we as adults are not held accountable for ours?
