[T-Bone Texan]

One day I was engrossed in an Oprah episode and I accidentally dressed my baby in barbecue sauce, garnished him with gingered carrots and cilantro, and stuck him in the microwave on high for ten minutes, remembering to rotate halfway through. Don't judge!

Win!

[buckalfa]

Parents should be responsible for the actions of their children. However under the it takes a village to raise a child mantra it seems any accident or event can be criminalized against the parent. In South Carolina, State Law Enforcement Division officers routinely peruse hospital ER records looking for child abuse. Eliminating child abuse is a noble goal, but who is to say a legitimate accident is an accident or a criminal act by a parent. Common sense should rule, but in this day and age of rule ny men instead of by law ---.

[econjack]

She did nothing wrong. She bears no responsibility.

Sorry, you're wrong. She's the parent of the child and must assume responsibility for that child until it comes of age.

It's hard being a parent.

Whoever told you otherwise was lying. Perhaps you should have checked into this before you decided to have a child. An when you fail to hold up that responsibility, you should bear the consequences. Far too often parents duck the responsibility of their children. That needs to stop, as does passing off the responsibility for any of your actions. The fact is, you were not watching your child and that action caused the death of a very expensive animal. I think you should pay for getting a replacement.

[Grams A]

Understand that she had several children under her care that day. IMO there is no way any adult can keep up with more than one child at a time in such an environment as a zoo. I hate those harness contraptions that are used to keep kids close but perhaps had she used one we wouldn’t have thousands of hours on TV devoted to this one issue.

Find it interesting that the press has gone from putting dad’s personal and criminal history under a microscope totally to the other end of the spectrum.

[combat_boots]

It hadn’t happened previously.

[combat_boots]

Where was the father?