Posted on 07/19/2005 9:34:10 AM PDT by AbeKrieger
CAMDEN, N.J. — Three boys who suffocated in a car trunk last month were alive for at least 17 hours, slowly succumbing while police searched their neighborhood, a lawyer for the family of one of the boys says. Lawyer Peter M. Villari told The New York Times that officials of the Camden County prosecutor's office went over details of an autopsy report with him, the newspaper reported Tuesday. The boys, ages 5, 6 and 11, disappeared from the yard where they were playing a little after 5 p.m. on June 22. Their deaths were ruled accidental. Relatives searched for the boys for three hours and then called authorities. A two-day search that included dogs, helicopters and boats on the nearby Delaware River ended when the father of one of the boys found them dead in the trunk of an inoperable car sitting just feet from where they had been playing. The autopsy report, which has not been released publicly, found that the boys died between 10:30 a.m. on June 23 and 2:30 a.m. on June 24, Villari said. That estimate was based on fluid and tissue samples and weather data, he said. Villari told the newspaper that responsibility for the deaths is now "squarely on the shoulders of the police." "I think the numbers speak for themselves," he said. "They were certainly alive when the police arrived and certainly well after the search started." Villari did no immediately return a call seeking additional comment Tuesday. The prosecutors' office had no immediate comment.
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I planted an insurance money tree in my back yard years ago.
I was not informed it required special tax-payer funded water to make it grow. Needless to say, it died.
Where is the money coming from that will pay for the increase of the insurance premiums?
I feel really bad for you.
It must be almost as bad as having your child suffocate in the trunk of a hot car.
I'll put you on my prayer list.
Tell you what, let's see what they say about WHY the trunk was not searched. I plan NOT to be surprised with the findings.
Attractive Nuisance
Depends.
How much is the insurance premium going up because of this one claim?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
I feel really bad for you.
It must be almost as bad as having your child suffocate in the trunk of a hot car.
I'll put you on my prayer list.
Wrong. The Camden cops did not kill these kids, nor through negligence, cause their deaths, as in your example of failing to check the rear-view mirror. And the parents of these kids, through their own negligence, not the police, allowed these kids to access this car's trunk and lock themselves in. And until cops have X-Ray vision or ESP.... Come on, man !!!
You can cut and paste as many times as you'd like. I still have no idea what you are driving at.
The parents position a death trap in their front yard and you want to blame the gov't for it. You've been well conditioned by our litigious, victimist zeitgeist.
Having your children die like that must be truly horrible, which is why the parents probably can't bear to acknowledge that it is their fault for their negligent supervision of those children and for not looking in the trunk themselves, especially if it is true as someone said here on the thread that they had played in the car here. I do not know in the police seach of the car was thorough enough or not but they did not cause this tragedy, the parents did.
So it's the cops' job to keep track of your children?
You are a welfare queen.
By the way, something is wrong with this whole storyline. If the kids were conscious when the police searched the vehicle, they would have heard the cops even if the cops didn't open the trunk. You would think the kids could have made enough noise to be noticed. Same thing if the parents really were searching the area before they called the police. The only way this accidental death explanation makes any sense would be if the kids were unsupervised long enought to get locked in the trunk and then become unconcious before anyone even started looking. If that is the case, then whoever was supervising them that day is lucky they are not up on negligent homicide charges.
While watching a news clip, I noticed a police Sargent, with about 100 pounds of ass, walk up to the car and look inside and under the auto and walk by the trunk. She then walked up behind and looked at some bushes. She looked as if she was happy to be on National news.
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