Where do you suggest he could he have moved to avoid it?
Out of Tampa area.
Well he would not necessarily have to move
He could send the boy to temporarily live with relatives in another city or neighborhood.
I don’t mean to say the father was thoughtless but when your child’s life is in obvious danger you may have to get creative or even desperate.
Perhaps at a time like that you might have to think like the desperate people of the Great Depression and just put as many of your positions as you can in your car and head for California hoping for the best.
Today you might replace California with North Dakota.