spoon059 wrote:
It blows my mind that people are so willing to deflect blame away the parents in this case. You have some touchy-feeling folks here that feel bad for what happened, so they refuse to assign blame because what happened was so tragic. The problem is that when you don't accept responsibility for your mistakes, those mistakes continue to get made by somebody else, and somebody else, and somebody else. If we had personal responsibility and blamed the correct people, perhaps we would see less of these events.
Those people more then anyone know they could have done more to protect the life of their child. They will wake up every morning blaming themselves. They will inescapably from time to time simply melt into a pool of tears when they see some little thing that will all of a sudden remind them of the terrible tragedy. They will lay awake night after night for hours on end reliving the tragedy. There is no blame you or me or anyone else can put on them that they haven't already put on themselves. No one should ever have to bury their child; that is the most rottenest feeling in the world - I know first hand. How could you be so cold and uncaring? They don't need you (a police officer no less) blaming them - they can take care of that just fine all by themselves.