I have in my life forgotten things, important things, while distracted. It's my good fortune that none of these has caused me to live the rest of my life knowing that I'd killed my own child in a horrible way.
Thank you for your humble observation. I, too, have been distracted and could have had the worst occur, but, from my faith tradition, for the grace of God. As my mother lost a young child under awful circumstances, I know, too, God's grace was with her as she was tested. And she was not found wanting. V's wife.