You said: Why not just say a prayer of thanks that we don't live like that, and a prayer for peace for the boy's mother and his family?
Don't rip some lady apart after her kid just died.
If a kid needs help, a kid needs help. Regardless of status.
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This is less a rip of the lady than it is of the media trying to place blame where it does not belong. I doubt if anyone in here would search this lady out and give her grief for her failure to save her son's life.