If a parent takes his children past safety barriers to watch a hurricane, should he be prosecuted?
I just heard about the child killed by the hurricane in spite of barriers prohibiting people from viewing from the area where her family was. If a child drowns in a bathtub after being left alone, the parent is prosecuted for neglect. I think this action is much more egregious. What do you think?
Tagged with: bathtub • hurricane • neglect • spite
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I agree. I also think that stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to breed.
It kinda ticks me off when people do stupid crap like this. They pretend that they have some god given right to speed and talk on the cell phone while diving on the highways. Then they come in here to whine and complain about getting a ticket and how can they get out of paying.
These are the same people opposed to cameras giving people tickets. Which I for one support 100%. just because a cop isn’t physically present doesn’t mean that the laws do not apply to you anymore.
Yes, that parent should be prosecuted. This is worse than leaving your kid in the car on a hot day… because the person that left the kid could have honestly forgotten .. this on the other hand was a conscious choice.
dur dur dur … I’ll just take my kid into that burning building so we can watch the purtty fire.
yes
I dont think so.
no, people can make their own decisions about their family
It’s a form of reckless endangerment and warrants prosecution
Lighten up, they would have died anyway. Really, they were too stupid to go on living if they were OUTSIDE IN A FREAKIN HURRICANE.
They should throw the parent in after tying their hands and feet and adding about 200 pounds of scrap metal to it.
I think the loss of his child was punishment enough. I’m sure he learned his lesson.
yes, for child endangerment and neglect and should get 20 years
ya, they should be prosecuted
He/she should be immediately issued a citation for endangerment. No questions asked.
I think it’s called child endangerment, and I think he can get prosecuted.
Actually, I HOPE he gets prosecuted…
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. He should be prosecuted. A parent that cares would never put there child in danger to watch a dangerous hurricane .
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Yes totally…I am so tired of seeing people on the news that do stupid things and then it being excused by the statement " they have suffered enough" prosecute more parents and maybe then they will start to take the job of parenting more serious.
well it is a stupid thing to do but people have the option of staying or evacuating so i don’t think it applies no matter how stupid they are
plus im sure they are hurting enough with the loss of their child
where did you hear this? media and by word of mouth is really unreliable and might change the story so you might be getting the wrong story
It’s certainly not as terrible as death by neglect, but it’s not very smart. If a parent allows his/her child to deliberately break a law then the act is punishable. Whether the parent should be prosecuted on the grounds of being a bad mom/dad is questionable though.
YES!
That is terrible.
Absolutely. Child endangerment. I also think that people that accidentally leave their children to die in parked vehicles because they "forgot" about them should be prosecuted. I see no excuse. That’s just me.
Yes, I think the parent willfully, negligently and stupidly endangered his own child and should be prosecuted.
Strange, people think people should be prosecuted for allowing their kids to be in harm’s way (as in the trespassing the prohibited areas on a beach or an unattended bath tub) while fiercely upholding legalized death through abortion-on-demand in the heinous term called "a woman’s right to choose". Choose what? Being allowed to kill her baby without consequence of jail time or execution?
What a screwed up world this is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I think in most states that would be a crime known as "reckless endangerment." Stupidity may not be a crime in itself, but endangering a child too young to understand the danger is definitely criminal.
Yes, he should be prosecuted for endangering the lives of his children. He has the right to jeopardize his own safety, but not theirs.
Any bone head that takes his child into a hurricane to watch it
needs to be killed himself.
You cannot watch a hurricane anyway. It is a lot of rain and wide.