Posted on 01/11/2005 3:49:04 PM PST by EveningStar
PALMDALE -- A toddler died in a flooded desert wash after she fell into the fast-moving water as a helicopter was plucking her family from their partly submerged sedan.
Two-year-old Jamaia Davis' mother had driven around barricades trying to get home Sunday night to Lake Los Angeles and drove into what firefighters said was water 3 or 4 feet deep where normally dry Little Rock Wash crosses Avenue N.
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I am sorry about the loss. But what part of "BARRICADE" did this woman not understand?
I guess she's like Dems and thinks the rules don't apply to her. How would that water DARE get in her way--she had to get home!
How could you let go of your baby?!!!!!!!!
Words fail me. Prayers for the baby.
My guess is that she is a recent transplant from Compton. Nothing against Comptonites, but they can be stubborn when it comes to these things.
This apparently happened yesterday. I just now found out about it on Larry Elder's show. He thinks there may be criminal negligence here. Not so much for letting her go but for avoiding barricades.
I have actually seen people drive around the gate that comes down when a train approaches.
I am very sorry for the loss of this toddler.
Sooner or later something would have happened to her. Her mother was an idiot.
I think some type of criminal negligence charges are in order.
And I hope they did a drug test on this idiot to see if that played a part in her lapse of critical thinking skills.
The mother didn't think. No matter her race, kids name or what if she loved her baby she probably wishes she was dead too. I say leave her alone. She will live the rest of her life with this. That's punishment enough.
Southern California ping
I second that
The authorities are considering prosecution. Whether they actual will is to be determined.
People who do such stupid and reckless things are not generally haunted by guilt. I would like to see her prosecuted.
Potential "Just Damn!" here.
Your neck of the desert? 60th and Avenue H where there was trouble Sunday night??
"Toddler dies in wash"
She wouldn't have done too well in the dryer, either.
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