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Parents charged with involuntary manslaughter after their child is struck and killed by a car (they let him walk home alone)

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23 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

The legal premise is that it is involuntary manslaughter to....let your 7 year old cross a street with his 10 year old sibling supervising/holding his hand.  That's it.  That's the legal factual scenario.

That's so breathtakingly asinine and stupid, I really don't know where to start.  Yeah, we Gen X types have all those stories, but FFS, we did similar with our kids.  At age 7 or so, they were crossing the PCH with their 10 yr old cousins.  They were taught to cross at crosswalks and use the signal.  Now, might they have disregarded that and crossed in between?  I don't know, I wasn't watching them do it.  But Jesus, it's not criminal to let a kid cross the street.

The icing on the cake?  A fucking $1.5 million bond.  What the fuck?  Are these people a fucking flight risk?  For a crime that LITERALLY doesn't even have intent as an element?  

This country fucking sucks.

The article doesn't give any details but could it be a possibility that they charged/issued the high bond if the parents already have a history with CPS or something?  *Serious question from obvious non lawyer.

53 minutes ago, smuggs said:

The article doesn't give any details but could it be a possibility that they charged/issued the high bond if the parents already have a history with CPS or something?  *Serious question from obvious non lawyer.

Their skin is too dark. That's the reason. 

3 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Paying an 8 year old with drugs and candy really isn't the precedent we want to set here. 

I almost said Mr. Pibb, cause I'm pretty sure my budget was on the low end and I would have saved the extra juice for the candy. However, Mr Pibb is for assholes and it would have eliminated the drug mule softball. So... thanks and you're welcome. 

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

My dad used to send me to the corner stire on a riding lawn mower with a note for a pack of winstons and a 6er of high life.

*store

Unless your dad was sending you to an Old English apple for some odd reason. That is after your edit, so I was forced to call it out.

I grew up in Brenham in the 70s.  When TABC started cracking down on underage kids buying beer at the convenience store for Papa, Muti, Opa, or Oma, a lot of those Germans lost their shit.  I lived down the street from the TABC guy, and some of the Germans would stop in the middle of the street and give him hell while he was working in his yard.  It was hilarious to see a dude from Lufkin take a cussing out in German, trying to figure out what he was being called.

On 6/6/2025 at 10:03 AM, Deej said:

Their skin is too dark. That's the reason. 

 

In North Carolina?

 

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