I’m so proud of you for not forgetting your children anywhere. Neither have I. If, heaven forbid, you were to have made an awful mistake, though, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be hung for it.
You must be a bitter person. I’m sure glad I’m not like you.
If I cooked my child to death yes I would want to be hung for it.
As to a better person I think you indeed should work on that.
Ruling out heart attacks, strokes, or some variety of mental incapacitation, we all must admit that there was some level of negligence in this mother's actions. Therefore, we all must admit that there's some level of individual responsibility for that negligence.
I'm no lawyer, so I can't comment on what makes something rise to the level of criminal negligence. I suspect it's nothing more than being able to prove the facts more often than not. In this case, the prosecutor says he can't make a court case stick. I believe him. He surely hasn't endeared his community, those who vote for him, by this. They're up in arms to see the lady prosecuted. It would be the politically wise thing for him to do. But he isn't. He says it's cause he can't prove the case in court. I believe him.
Notice that he's not saying she is innocent. This is why her employer, the local school board, is meeting to decide if she should be fired. The logic presented in the media is that such negligence with her own child disqualifies her from being granted responsibility for the live of other folks' children. My guess is that the lawyer for the school board will advise that, since the prosecutor can't prove the case, and since she has no record, that firing her will make the board liable for a suit.
Does she walk away free from this negligence?
Probably. She can never walk away from personal responsibility, though. I expect it will end her marriage, eventually. I expect she'll have to leave her job because of ostracism. I expect she'll hate herself to the point her living life becomes a dead thing. I'll not be surprised if she kills herself.
How in the world can Christ ever forgive such a thing? That's her only hope -- a sincere, real, non-phony encounter with the Lord -- so far as I'm concerned.
On a side note, I do believe the possibility of these kinds of deaths are enhanced by laws that prevent car seats in the front seat, and by the fatigued family syndrome.