[HartleyMBaldwin]

A four-year-old boy fell into the enclosure just minutes before the 400-pound animal was fatally shot.

Someone failed to take proper care of the 4-year-old boy, thus causing the zoo to be deprived of a valuable exhibit. That person should be required to spend the rest of his or her life occupying the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo.

[Reily]

They should have charged the cost of getting another gorilla and permanently banned from the zoo!

Maybe that happened but I doubt it.

[Joann37]

Exactly! No mention of the parents whatsoever.

I guess we are to assume that the baby crawled of his secure crib, all the way to the zoo, and got himself into the gorilla’s cage.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes. Whoever was supervising that 4 year old needs to be held accountable, gorilla death or not.