No. And the father of her late toddler lives in a nearby apartment.
Brunswick GA is a SMALL peninsula town in far SE GA. The ‘nice’ areas are only a few blocks on the SW of the ‘thumb’.
Brunswick failed as a city shortly after WWII when the shipyard there, which built 99 Victory ships was abruptly closed. About ten square miles of the town is housing built in that era populated with several generations of black ‘families’ living off subsidies, handouts and menial labor. I have done a lot of faith-based rehabilitation construction in that very part of town.
There are houses there with multiple generations housed there with no recognizable traditional family structure.
Recently the neighborhood mix has been shifted by marginally better off Hispanics moving in. The traditional residents have not always reacted well. The small pocket of BEAUTIFUL but dilapidated Victorian homes is mostly owned by gentrifiying whites who didn’t buy on nearby St Simons Island.
*IF* everyone in this story had been raised in a moral intact family the outcomes would likely be different.
So yes, it does matter in a way.
Married mothers also take their kids out in strollers without the company of their husbands. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the poor child lost his life because of that.