We really don't know what happened. We don't know that their faces weren't red mostly due to crying. Ten month old children frequently cry for reasons that are largely beyond a parents ability to control. More likely than not, three children with possibly sunburnt faces would not have gotten anyone's attention, except for that they happened to be crying.
If that woman was negligent, than all our parents were and so am I. Should all parents whose children have been sunburnt be called negligent and hauled into court? I think it was a perfect example of how things can take a wrong turn just because some psycho megalomaniac with a position of authority mistakenly intervenes. This mother would have probably just gone home from the fair and life would have gone on as usual. Instead she was placed in jail for over a week, had her children taken away by the child protective services, likely spent 1000's of dollars in legal fees, and now has to live with both the stigma of the event and the fear that something similar could happen again. Tom C. >From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PESO - Jump >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:13:21 -0400 > >On 7/20/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Loosely related to demonstrate how an innocent situation can get out of > > hand... > > > > http://www.gregsopinion.com/archives/001947.html > >That's a bad example. > >A 31 year old mother doesn't know to protect her 10 month old kids >from sunburn? I'm not saying that criminal charges should arise, but >she certainly was negligent. > >cheers, >frank > >-- >"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
