The child was playing near a mirror.
From the article: apparently playing near the 5-foot-tall mirror
The mother was not watching him.
From the article:she was about 5 feet away from her son when she heard a loud crash.
If you aren't SEEING what your child is doing, that's not control
Lots of kids play near lots of things. That doesn't mean that they are "out of control."
Nothing in the article suggests that the child was "out of control."
The child was only five feet away, for crying out loud. The child was in no way out of control.
How do you know that mother wasn't watching him? How do you know that "playing near the mirror" had anything to do with the mirror falling on him? That is what at question re: your posts.
My child is in another room - I can't see her or what she is doing.
By your logic I have no control over my child.
You would have freaked out Saturday if you knew my daughter was 40 yards away from where we were sitting, and would occassionally drop below dock deck level by the water and totally out of sight. Of course all I oe daddy had to do was call her name and she was by my side before I even had a chance to tell her I was just checking where she was.
The kid's gonna be a track star, I swear.