[CindyDawg]

Awhile back there was an article about a man that left his young son in the car asleep while hunting. The child got out or something and died. The judge would not listen to the prosecuter. She felt the same way you did I guess and found him guilty. Evidently her sentence wasn't stiff enough though. The dad couldn't live with what he had done and went back to the same spot and sentenced himself to death. Neither you or I know what this woman feeling. Only she and God know that.

[fml]

If there was a prosecutor, then he was prosecuted. Indeed only God knows what someone is feeling, but that does not negate that a parent should be punished by the law for negligence that killes children

[ApplegateRanch]

Personal remorse, and punishment for criminal behavior are two separate issues, and one is no substitute for the other.

Many, many people feel life long remorse about causing the death of another, or the loss of their possessions, but that does not get them off the hook for manslaughter, negligent homicide, burning a neighbor's home down when their illegal &/or unattended burn-barrel gets out of hand, or a host of other criminal acts.

Would you feel the same if it happened to be someone else's child that happened to be in her car, say one she was babysitting, that died, rather than her own?

Stupid is stupid, negligent is negligent, and illegal is illegal...but THIS was all three.

[BobS]

A lot of people around here don't know much about the CA high desert. It can flood, like now. It can get well below freezing in the winter with snow and ice on the 5, 14, 58 and 15 to Vegas. There is no heat retention at all. When you fly down those highways at 85 mph, never, Ever turn the windshield washer on.