You are being totally irrational and making false claims because I think that even you are realizing that you are losing the argument.
If anything can happen at any time, that is all the more reason that you keep the kids under close supervision. especially at that age and especially in an enviroment where the conditions are less than ideal for watching them.
The mother screwed up, but every parent on the planet loses track of their kid in a place they can get hurt at one time or another. Its tragic and she really should have known where the kid was but making a mistake does not imply she is a poor mother, the kid is out of control, or that WallMart had no fault
What I take exception to is that people here are using this even to feel better about themselves (I'm a great parent, I *DONT EVER* lose track of my kid), their kids (My kid would *NEVER go off five feet and get into trouble), and their parents (my parents raised me so that I *NERVER* disobey anyone). This back-padding fest by all these uber parents is infuriating when but for the grace of God this could have happened to them (losing a kid).