And therein lies the problem. She refused to make the authorities aware that the child was missing, lied about it and still was not convicted of count 3 even though she was convicted on the counts 4-7 for her calculated lies to keep the authorities from finding the truth.
As our society continues down this path of defining deviency down, so goes the responsibility for doing the right thing. For those who refuse to do the right thing, the only action for those who disregard responsibility is the law. No society can advance or reasonably exist without it.
The problem is, the law already exists to catch her for neglect. But the prosecutor could not convince the jury that it happened. The problem isnt the law, which is just a statement written on paper. The problem is with the enforcement/prosecution of the law. If we create another law, we dont fix the actual problem.