It's very easy to have a child within clear view of you from five feet away. Would the child be alive if the mother had been within four feet or maybe three feet of where the mirror fell? How about two feet away?
You seem to be the responsibility czar for FR and anyone who posts here. What are your qualification for the position? Were you blessed from on high to fill the spot?
People do make mistakes but being five feet away from a child isn't one you get to grind you heel into someone over.
A three year old really shouldn't be wandering around Wal-Mart. It's like Simba in a stampede...
...A Mexican stampede.
What are your qualification for the position
I have every qualification as a parent. I through experience know things happen but you do your best to control them. There is NO WAY a three year old kid should be running around, walking around or five feet from his mother....Period. That is what carts are for and if the kid was too fat for the seated part than the huge buggy would have worked just fine.