MsMarple
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Those poor kids! Subjected to being imprisoned in the car so dad can play his video games in peace and perhaps have a few drinks too.
They finally had an opportunity to tell an adult what was happening in the home but apparently the one person who should have listened - the judge - chose to be swayed instead by mother’s pleas to bring dad home.
Perhaps for now they won’t have to sit in a hot car but if dad gets a cushy plea deal what guarantees that he won’t go back to his old behavior? And there’s still the issue of his drinking.
Mom and dad instructed the kids to say dad is a good dad, essentially telling them that they deserved to be put in the car at the whim of their father. At their young ages did no one consider that the children may internalize those actions to mean it’s all their fault their sister died? That they failed to save her?
There is so much wrong in the handling of this case IMO. If the judge isn’t taking the Grand Jury’s indictment seriously then what’s the point?
All MOO
They finally had an opportunity to tell an adult what was happening in the home but apparently the one person who should have listened - the judge - chose to be swayed instead by mother’s pleas to bring dad home.
Perhaps for now they won’t have to sit in a hot car but if dad gets a cushy plea deal what guarantees that he won’t go back to his old behavior? And there’s still the issue of his drinking.
Mom and dad instructed the kids to say dad is a good dad, essentially telling them that they deserved to be put in the car at the whim of their father. At their young ages did no one consider that the children may internalize those actions to mean it’s all their fault their sister died? That they failed to save her?
There is so much wrong in the handling of this case IMO. If the judge isn’t taking the Grand Jury’s indictment seriously then what’s the point?
All MOO