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.
  • fodor@lemmy.zip
    24·
    1 day ago

    I think you’re trying to make a pretty s***** implication. Remember that this is a situation where the parents got charged with a crime for being reckless. Are you insinuating that the parents knew that their 7 year old child was likely to jump out into the street, and that perhaps the child had a history of doing so, and that the parents nevertheless allowed the child to walk home from the store? It sounds like that’s what you’re claiming.

    • PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:@towns.gay
      81·
      1 day ago

      @fodor @pixxelkick Contrast this with the treatment of rich white parents who buy their teenage children cars and allow them to continue using them unsupervised despite evidence that they routinely speed, drive distracted, and otherwise violate traffic laws when their teenager kills someone with their weapon.

    • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
      224·
      1 day ago

      A history isn’t needed, the child is seven years old, that’s all that’s needed.

      Seven year olds are not nearly old enough to wander around 4 lane busy roads unsupervised, full stop.

      That’s blatant negligence, there’s no getting past that.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
        7·
        17 hours ago

        Seven year olds are not nearly old enough to wander around 4 lane busy roads unsupervised, full stop.

        He was with his older brother, who is 10.

        And if a 10 year old is perfectly capable of walking to school (literally according to everyone), a 7 year old with their 10 year old brother should also be perfectly fine walking TWO BLOCKS without the worry of being killed by a driver.

        And 4 lane roads should be banned in urban centers. It’s fucking ridiculous to have a goddamn highway in an area where children and families should be able to walk home safely!

        • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 hours ago

          And if a 10 year old is perfectly capable of walking to school (literally according to everyone), a 7 year old with their 10 year old brother should also be perfectly fine walking TWO BLOCKS without the worry of being killed by a driver.

          …No…

          A 10 year old is not old enough to be responsible for a 7 year old, full stop. Most experts consider around 12 to 13 the minimum maturity for a child to be capable of being responsible for another child. 10 is definitely too young to be looking after another kid, wtf are you talking about.

          I really hope you don’t have kids…

          • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 hours ago

            The experts say:

            National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (UK)

            Every child is different – but some schools advise children under 8 shouldn’t walk home without an adult or older sibling. SOURCE

            Ottawa Safety Council (Walk Alone Program, Canada)

            … a good guideline for starting to think about letting your child walk alone is age 10. SOURCE

            American Academy of Pediatrics (USA)

            Children usually are ready to walk to school without an adult when they are in fifth grade or around 10 years old. SOURCE

            They also put this poster together:

            Every country has the same general consensus.

            I really hope you don’t have kids…

            Kids and grandkids. And I was also once a kid with a younger sibling. And I see young kids walking to our local school on a regular bases.

            If someone is still walking their teenager to school, they should probably stop 😮

        • Crankenstein@lemmy.world
          4·
          17 hours ago

          Exactly. Why are there 4 lane roads in pedestrian areas, especially so close to a school? Where is the pedestrian infrastructure so that this child could have walked safely?

          I despise how people want to shift the blame to a child just walking to school and the parents who weren’t even involved instead of the driver of a multi-ton death machine for not paying attention to pedestrians.