With each passing year it happens more frequently. If there were appropriate punishment, I bet the parents would be less forgetful. And I’m sorry for the parents’ pain, but shouldn’t we focus more on the child?
‘If there were appropriate punishment, I bet the parents would be less forgetful.’
I highly doubt it. It is not intentional, punishment has no effect on unintentional acts.
Every one is focused on the child already. Especially the parent. In any other accident that kills a child the focus is also on the child, but sympathy for the parent is much more. In these instances the parents own forgetfulness is to blame making them even more heart broken.
You can not regulate against tragedy. regardless of punishment, they will happen. This type of tragedy is being completely blown out of proportion. Less than 3 dozen children a year die in this manner, whereas hundreds die every year drowning in buckets, bathtubs and even toilets. These tragedies all have an element of negligence as well.
Even if it where hundreds a year, it is a very small, microscopic even, percentage of the total population of children in a country of 300+ millions.
What punishment should we meet out to cause further anguish to the parent?