I knew a guy once, one of the most decent human beings in the world, who sat his baby daughter on the roof of his car in her car seat one day to unlock the door, in an absent-minded moment, he got something on his mind and started backing out his driveway with her still on his car roof.
Only a screaming wife running down the driveway made him instantly realize what he had done. He stopped the car before she fell off.
How somebody coudl forget a child all day long is a mystery to me, but I suppose it could happen....rarely.
If you could look into the human soul and see if it was intentional, and if it was, then the parents should be shot on the spot. I can't think of a more awful way for a child to die. But if it truly IS an awful accident, then I can't imagine what those people must be going through, and, I agree with the police, the prosecution should not happen.
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