It probably saved the lives of the responders, the kids were dead or near dead within minutes of the door closing so a quicker response probably would not have saved them and would have risked responders in the explosion.
The real problem here is the complete stupidity of the social services twits who know the complete situation and yet turn over the kids to the suspect father at his own home with inadequate supervision to ensure their safety.
Absolutely!
“... the real problem here is the complete stupidity of the social services twits...”
I’m not arguing with your assessment; however, didn’t a judge approve the visitation of the father with the children? I saw an interview on television of the social worker and it seems like she was following the court’s orders. It also sounded like Powell planned this in advance. So sad for those two precious little boys.
Visitation should have taken place outside of his home, at a Government office. Never should of allowed visitation at his home; the social worker was blocked from getting inside the house to “supervise” the visitation. Maybe this types of visits should always have a deputy or policeman/woman go with the social worker.
And didn't even know the address when the 911 call began.
That's what a college degree in Liberal Arts will gain you.
They are just carrying out the evil of the real villains -- the liberal judges who make these kinds of rulings that an obviously unstable parent gets to spend time alone with the kids.
It happened here in Maryland to the children of a pediatrician, whose husband was certifiably mentally ill, yet he got awarded unsupervised custody over her distraught pleadings -- she was threatened with loss of custody if she kept complaining -- and he killed his two little boys in a Baltimore hotel room.