Yeah, not reporting your missing two-year-old for a month while you lie to the police about her, and party, until she is found dead, buried and wrapped in duct tape, doesn't come near the minimum requirements for negligence, let alone, at the very least, negligent manslaughter.
Oh and by the way - don't make the mistake of leaving your child in your car while you go into a store. Even if you remember them and run back out in 60 seconds, you'll be charged with negligence and have them taken away from you, and if they die from heat, you'll be convicted of negligent manslaughter.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
It would have helped immensely if the police had followed through with the lineman back in August and looked in the area he told them to look.
Instead, an officer looked for a few minutes, yelled at the lineman for wasting his time, and the remains weren’t found for another four months.
What happened during those four months?
In four months, the state went from potentially having a body to having a skeleton. They went from being able to test tissue to not having tissue to test. They went from a body that was probably in one piece to one that was scattered by animals or people or who knows.
I agree. She probably killed her child. But the state doesn’t get to make those “mistakes”. The state made a lot of mistakes. The body was only one of them
Be mad at the state who made so many missteps that there was no way a jury could do what they were tasked to do.
>>Yeah, not reporting your missing two-year-old for a month while you lie to the police about her, and party, until she is found dead, buried and wrapped in duct tape, doesn’t come near the minimum requirements for negligence, let alone, at the very least, negligent manslaughter.
Oh and by the way - don’t make the mistake of leaving your child in your car while you go into a store. Even if you remember them and run back out in 60 seconds, you’ll be charged with negligence and have them taken away from you, and if they die from heat, you’ll be convicted of negligent manslaughter.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. <<
Well said, and worth repeating.
We just had the same discussion. Some 80 year old lady is in trouble for throwing newspaper in a trashcan in New York. My question is now that she is getting out, where does she go? How would you like to be that family with her back home for dinner?
What are you going on about? I’ve not followed this whole thing, but she wasn’t charged with manslaughter now was she? If so, I’m sure the result would have been much different...
Don’t ever leave your child in the car, even for 60 seconds.
“Oh and by the way - don’t make the mistake of leaving your child in your car while you go into a store. Even if you remember them and run back out in 60 seconds, you’ll be charged with negligence and have them taken away from you, and if they die from heat, you’ll be convicted of negligent manslaughter.”
I was stopped by a cop in a shopping center parking lot for doing that with my two dogs...it was not hot and I had cracked the windows. The @$$hole cops had to make a point...I was not ticketed.