“There is no defense for this absolute disregard for her children’s safety.”
Humans created that bear problem, plain and simple. There can only be two possible outcomes from the start of that stupidity.
The bears are removed before they harm someone there and then they will instantly become someone else's problem to deal with.
OR They will attack someone there and will be destroyed locally.
It seems that they took door number two this time.
We grew up helping the county LEO's find stupid lost flatlanders. Sometimes they would be able to walk out and sometimes they brought them out in buckets and/or bags. I've found more than one child that the parents were too damned stupid to keep track of.
Sorry to impose some reality into your limited thinking but the most dangerous animal by far on this earth in Human. All of our children know that at a very young age. They know well and understand, from first hand observation, that the gene pool is regularly cleaned of those who do not know, understand, and respect the natural world.
What we have here is the arrogance of flatlander/city slickers who think that they know everything about everywhere. Look over your shoulder at the "inner city" a few blocks away and try to impress me about your knowledge of animals. Explain to how this continuing reality demonstrates to me your ability to deal with lethal and threatening situations so that none of your children die.
In your culture you accept the threats to your children from the gangs and drug cartels. In your culture you can not, have not, and will not protect your own youth in your own back yard.
In my culture we permanently eliminate the known threats to our children's lives at the first opportunity.
Which culture would you say was more civilized?
Being an educated mountain boy I have all of the comparative statistics of deaths per K of youth in the different areas. If you want to discuss this further we can.