Granted no one can be guaranteed their child's safety but there are so many little ones that are unsupervised while out playing I can't believe it. Some parents need to be more serious about their responsibility.
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You have a point there about a lack of parental supervision...seems to be a common thing in many places. But to be fair, regarding Shasta and Dylan -- presumably, this creep killed their mother, brother and the mother's boyfriend. I can't speak as to whether the mother was a vigilant supervisor of her children, but obviously, in a situation like this, parental supervision would not have made a difference.
Parental supervision is important, but perhaps more so is whatever efforts we can expend to keep these lowlifes away from our children in the first place.
Right. That's why I said there's no guarantee because you could always be caught in the night unprepared or at some other inopportune time.
Florida has a center where they keep the "incurables" but the insane thing about the system is that there are a lot of repeat offenders who are living in our neighborhoods. The laws and penalties are not hard enough on the offenders to keep us safe, at least safer than we are now.
As far as I'm concerned, first offense and they have forfeited the privilege to live among the rest of us.