Posted on 01/19/2020 12:34:48 AM PST by grundle
The video below is from CBS News.
On a cruise ship, a baby fell from a window to her death. The family sued the cruise line for negligence. The grandfather who was with the baby at the time of her death said he did not know the window was open.
However, after the lawsuit was filed, the cruise line provided CBS News with video footage which shows the grandfather dangling the baby outside the window for 34 seconds, right before she fell to her death.
The family responded to this video by asking that the video be stricken from the record.
It sucks that the baby died. But it also sucks that the grandfather lied. And it sucks that the family is asking for the video to be stricken from the record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKkO4Dmh5N4
I want to strike this evidence from the record as it incriminates my client.
now it sounds like premeditated murder.
I’m sure they do eant this stricken from the record.
It destroys their claim.
No, it wasn’t. They were all having a laugh about it and never thought he would lose his grip on a little squirmer.
But then they all decided to blame and sue the cruise company over his fatal mistake and try to cash in on a family members death one of them caused by their own error.
A senior Michael Jackson moment gone awry.
Why, oh why, do people in serious legal jeopardy feed the media beast?
If your attorney advises you to sit down for an interview with a hack interested solely in promoting himself, not your case, then you should find a new attorney.
Can’t sue the cruise ship if that video is shown.
The whole family is culpable for their aiding and Abetting!
Can the cruise line sue the family for fraud? They are clearly lying in their testimony.
I’ve been around people like that grandfather dangling a kid. The one I’m thinking of thought it was funny, but held on tight enough so nothing tragic happened.
As a kid my dad’s hired man used to shove me under the water while swimming. Everyone just thought it was so funny. Being the subject of the fun, I was terrified.
Back to the subject of the story, if the granddaddy is negligent, he needs to be charged with manslaughter and the cruise ship company needs to sue the family into extinction for defamation.
In a sane world, this granddad would be in jail and ostracized by the family, and the family would be morning the loss of this innocent baby.
When this first happened, I recall reading witnesses saying that he was holding the child out of the window, and I think there was even a photo of him doing it.
I think the cruise company was actually going to let him get away with it simply because they assumed that everybody in the family was crushed by the event and that pursuing the matter would probably make the company look cruel and heartless and result in bad publicity.
So instead of being grateful that the company was letting him get away with it, the family decided to try to make money on the poor child’s death. Awful people.
And now he’s rightly facing criminal charges and prison. I don’t think he meant to kill the child, but it was certainly criminal negligence.
Not uncommon...I once saw a man here in Florida dangling his toddler over a ditch full of 13 foot gators than ran alongside highway 441. His whole family standing by the car seemed to find it quite amusing.
Nope. The baby did not kill her self doing something stupid.
this entire family sounds shady as hell. No way is the cruise line responsible because the grandpa is an idiot who stuck a baby out a window. and I do not care if he’s colorblind.
If they are going to play him as a doddering ancient, then THEY are responsible for leaving the baby with him unsupervised.
YES!!!!!
When you got older, if you saw the man, you should have smacked him good. See if he got terrified.
Was he pretending to be Michael Jackson?
Something told me (and I'm sure so many others here on FR..) that there was way more to the story than was being let on by the family, especially since the story changed in the days afterwards.
Now we know.
I just hope the judge in this case doesn't throw out this important video evidence. Let it be a lesson to every dumbass family member everywhere who places a childs life in jeopardy for such a stupid reason.
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