Father Of The Year - Georgia edition

"That's not how kids work. The majority of us were raised in an era where sex was seen as shameful and dirty and few of us understood what we were doing when we first did it." - Anna

I've never heard of anyone getting killed by a penis yet - apples & oranges. Regardless I can see a little "wiggle room" with kids depending on some circumstances. But a grown ass adult getting drunk & forgetting his kids are in the car? Old enough to fuck/make babies and drive a vehicle but not function in society? Drive him out into the woods and leave his body for the coyotes.

Well, besides his "no true scotsman" dodge, at least we know he's willing to execute kids.

When kids do adult shit.....they should face adult consequences, but of course adults should be held to a much, much higher standard. Getting drunk and leaving babies in a hot car? No wiggle room there but that's just me. Let him babysit your kids then get back with me.

If the adults are held to a higher standard (of behaviour) and thus, lower tolerance, then logically (that word again) kids would be held to a lower standard and greater tolerance. However, you also state that minors should face the same consequences (i.e.: sentencing options) as their adult counterparts...

Which is it?

It depends generally on the circumstances - what I'm saying is the older you are (unless you are super old and senile or something) the less wiggle room you should have when committing the same criminal/dumb-shit behavior. That said prior offenses and experiences come into play. Some (many) young people have a lot of criminal experiences compared to older people who have led sheltered lives. But as a rule (and pretty much following common sense) nobody should get a complete "pass" just because they are young.

We had something like this happen here yesterday. Guy goes to work at Walmart at around 6am and forgets to drop his kid off at daycare. Nine hours later people in the parking lot realize there's a dead baby in the back seat of his car.


WaPo wrote something about the phenomenon a while back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...ory.html?postshare=5091471111862233&tid=ss_fb

Only the most simple-minded mental defectives think that there should be criminal charges every time such a tragedy happens.

Had the guy been drinking all day? The guy in Georgia was - I'm sure his thinking wasn't crystal clear as a result either.

Every case if different.As more of my friends become moms, I see more mommy blog reposts in my FB feed. Log story short, this is an accident that most often happens when sleep deprived parents throw off their schedule with a parent that normally doesn't take the kid to daycare and the kid is sleeping through the ride. Someone here mentioned once that this happened to one of his college professors with a baby he never his wife worked three years to conceive. He hardly ever took the baby to daycare and the kid was quiet through the whole car ride. Likely is happens a lot more in America than other Western countries because we drive so much more and in the case of Germany and Japan, they have a much bigger SAHM population that do everything for the kid, so less potential for mix up.

For this particular case, however? The guy was drunk off his ass. There's no excuse.

Also, the rear facing car seats: did this used to happen a lot back when car seats were kept in the front of the car? shootER's article mentioned that, and even though I was a kid myself at the time, I don't remember these things happening that often until the 2000s.

People decry that anyone who can remember a phone or a purse but not a baby shouldn't be parents, but we've been reaching for phones and purses so often, that it's second nature. No one has to think about those things because it's routine. And I can personally attest to sleep deprivation and stress messing with my own brain the first year I was in the Navy, so I can easily this being a thing with parents of young children.

THANK YOU! Somebody besides myself gets the "drunk off his ass" portion of the situation. Who knows with a clear head he may have realized soon enough that he fucked up and could have saved the kids. We'll never know but I hope somebody "forgets" to feed him in prison! Or maybe adds a "special ingredient" to his food that burns a hole through his guts. Other than the chomos I think his ass will be at the very bottom of the totem pole, right where it needs to be.

Mind you, not in agreement that this is execution worthy. The guy was negligent, but I have a hard time thinking he'll get the chance to leave anyone else's kids in cars again.

He'll probably do ten years or so for manslaughter.

Whelp, guess I'm a mental defective according to you. I'm not saying they should be put on death row (in fact I'm against the death penalty in general), but like every other case of negligent homicide, I feel there should be appropriate felony consequences for it. Leaving a kid in the back seat out of forgetfulness isn't any different from any other case of negligence on the part of one person causing the death of another.

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As the article mentioned, there can be a perfect storm of events that lead to a tragedy like this that make this into an unfortunate accident. Parent off their schedule. A quieter than usual child.

Frankly, no punishment will be worse than the guilt they will live with for the rest of their lives.

Guilt? This is the USA - shame & guilt & remorse set sail a long, long time ago.

Not for children, it doesn't.

There are plenty of parents who pimp their kids for drugs for example - or are serial child molestors (there are thousands of these). Some people have no guilt or shame even concerning children, often family members too.

That happens in other parts of the world, too

Many animal species treat their young better than humans do.

The same could be said for any example of negligence, though.