Posted on 06/27/2005 6:58:32 AM PDT by Conservatrix
The grieving dad of the 11-year-old mentally troubled New Jersey boy who suffocated in a car trunk with two younger pals blames the state's social-services agency, saying it should have put his son in a facility where he could have gotten help.
"If he would have been put in a safe place, this wouldn't have happened. The child needed a lot of help," Anibal Cruz Sr. said yesterday. -snip-" [The division] did nothing," Cruz said. "Why didn't they lock the baby somewhere safe? When kids need help, they have to help them."
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Re the article: Spoken like a true Nanny State-er. It's the state's fault that this boy closed the trunk of a car on himself and his friends. No personal responsibility on the part of the mother who was SUPPOSED to be watching these boys. Incredible.
If they knew this boy had behaviorial problems and has walked off alone before (as stated in the article), then why in HELL was he left alone AT ALL??? Especially with two younger boys 5 years old??????? The mother who was watching the boys is the one who left them unsupervised is the one to blame for the tragedy, not Child Protective Services of New Jersey!!!
I mean, have you heard ONE statement of contrition on the part of the mother who was responsible for these boys during the time this tragedy occured? No, of course not. Not one statement accepting responsibility for leaving them unattended. No apology to the other families. No admission of fault. No sorrow at her IRRESPONSIBILITY and carelessness and inattention. The fault lies with HER and HER ALONE.
Incredible.My keyboard wants to SHOUT.....
Sounds like someone (parent) is thinking of a lawsuit...
It's a premptive strike...the parents should be charged with child neglect.
Watch for lawsuits soon.
Yep, you got that right. I suspect this kid was a brat, am not buying that he was retarded.
Well, you can't be too hard on the guy. His kids are dead. No parent thinks rationally in that situation.
It was just a terrible accident. Nothing more. You can't keep an 11 year old boy locked in the closet all day long. I can remember when I was a kid in the 60's kids were locking themselves in old refrigerators and suffocating.
Accidents happen.
Yep.... lawsuit is on it's way
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Where do people like you come from?
I'm smelling a LAWSUIT !!
I think I would have to agree with the poster.
Too many children are simply undisciplined, unbridled brats who never had a decent spanking in their lives, never restrained from being wild, never having limits put on their behavior, never being told "NO." Thus, they are labeled ADD or needing special services. The special services of a good swtich would do wonders for some kids.
I can only imagine the lifestyle of people who leave 5 boys unattended in a crime-ridden, ugly city. Way too much TV watching and not enough kid watching.
Nevertheless, I certainly do not blame the poor child for doing what he did. He simply needed a responsible adult to be watching for his safety and give him guidance that horrible day. The blame rests on the mother who went in the house and left these boys ALONE.
That attorney is a clever one!
Sorry, "3" boys...
my thoughts exactly!
my thoughts exactly!
Pennsylvania, glad you asked.
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