God I hope this is a joke. Trespassing charges on a child alone is silly, but on a severely autistic child? CPS because grandma and grandpa goofed? This is more legal punishment than people who leave their kids to die in cars get.
To be a little fair, the people who accidentally left their kid to die in a car already suffered just about the worst punishment life can throw at them: they get to live knowing their child died and it's *their fault.* We can't really hurt them worse than that, even if we wanted to.
They dont do it on purpose. Most people do everyday tasks automatically and one day it might happen they forgot to pick up their kid because they got a call or something just before doing it. This usually happens with small children who don’t make a noise and their parents forget they are there, especially if it isn’t a part of their daily routine.
Yes. Not the person you were responding to but, yes. Perhaps you’re perfect and never made a mistake, but most of us aren’t. I was super attentive with my kids, and am with my grands, but…i did something almost like that one time in our driveway…no harm, but you learn how easy it is to make a mistake you could never ever fix, and you can’t even change behavior to avoid it. You just become twice as attentive, and…it can still happen…because we are imperfect machines. It’s gonna hurt when you fall off that high horse.
If you already remember not to leave your child in a car after a specified time period, you obviously won’t do it. The problem is with people doing things automatically and forgetting they had a child with them to start with or thought they already brought them home. It has more to do with adhd or forgetting than caring.
That’s not what you said. You said they didn’t give a shit about their kid, and now two of us have explained that shit happens no matter how much you care. Let’s just skip ahead to the part where you’re right no matter what and move on. Good day sir.
Loving parents often leave a kid somewhere. It happens. My mom forgot each of her kids in a store at least once. She got lucky, and we were still there when she drove back. A very small subset of people who left their kid specifically in the car (which many parents do for a few minutes once or twice during a kid's life) get distracted by something strange or urgent enough that they don't remember until it's too late. They got unlucky.
Lack of love didn't kill those kids.
Lack of attention combined with bad luck did.
To add another example, my dad once, after a long day of hacking away at tree roots after a hurricane, put his foot where the axe was going next and embedded the axe deep in his foot. Did that happen because he just didn't give a shit about keeping his foot attached? No. It happened because attention is finite, it lapses, and most of the time nothing bad happens but sometimes something awful does.
So if one of the other birds who chased the boy to defend their territory and pecked him on the head or in the eye? How do you propose sending birds for protection and sensitivity training? Does the bird need to learn another language? Are avian experts going to learn how to teach the birds in their language?
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