Times are different, with 2 working parents, it depends on how ill the child is. A responsible 12 year old with medicine for a strep throat could be left at home with the knowledge that a grandparent will be checking in on her. We don't know why she couldn't be left at the grandparent's home that day, but there's quite possibly a reason.
But this was a nightmare from hell, the terrified child facing robbers and being shot repeatedly. Her family is agonized, and who would want to be the grandfather that walked in and found her body? The ones to blame are the ones that broke in the house and killed her. She'd be doing well right now if it weren't for those murderous thugs.
If she’d been trained in the use of a firearm and provided with one, she would probably be alive right now.
If they want these useless turds to stay alive in prison, they’d better keep them solitary, otherwise they might experience the genpop’s traditional welcome for child murderers.
Times may be different and all that, but I say screw that, the child should come first and not be left alone. I’m not blaming the parents instead of the teenage thugs, I just would never leave a 12 year old home alone, not old enough in my book. No matter her age the same thing would have happened of course, but a parent/grandparent there may have made all the difference.
Obviously not.