Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident
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Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

  • topherclay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    7 days ago

    They gotta blame the people who designed the city. If these kids were a small fraction of the same age and in Japan they would be on TV for braving their first solo trip into the market to buy a vegetable for dinner. It would be a cute TV show called “Old Enough” on Netflix with English subtitles instead of a cruel reality on this side of the same planet where a kid is now dead.

    That part of it isn’t the fault of the parents, but the fault of the society we have created.

    Btw that TV show is a few decades old but my point is that the world is possible. We don’t need to be like Japan was in that TV show, but we do need more walkable cities.

    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeEnglish
      64·
      7 days ago

      Imagine your kid dies, your other kid being traumatized by watching his brother die, and then being charged with involuntary manslaughter.

    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      7 days ago

      I came here to mention Old Enough. So sad that my American kid can never have this kind of experience because of how fucked our cities and society are.