Reply #41: That's not true [View All]

[sandnsea]

There is a difference between attentive parents whose children wander off, and this woman. She was right there. She took the child back to his father. Then, she let the kid throw rocks and sticks into a creek she had already decided was too dangerous for him to be around. That changes the legal responsibility of the situation. Parents are charged in situations like this all the time, when it isn't a matter of having taken all reasonable precautions and the child getting into mischief in spite of it. This woman didn't take those reasonable precautions, she ignored her own best judgment in fact.