Read sarcasm and understand my blatant "dumbass" was intentional.
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Cincinati Zoo gorilla shot dead
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Not a victim here but now she is receiving death threats.
Q: What kind of charges could the parents face?
A: Prosecutors could pursue a charge of child endangering, which makes it a crime for a parent or guardian to create "a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child by violating a duty of care, protection or support."
Q: So how likely is that to happen?
A: Legal experts think it would be very hard to prove such a charge because most child endangering cases involve parents who leave or fail to monitor a youngster for an extended period.
Q: But shouldn't the mom have known better?
A: Again, the experts point out that the mother had been standing with the child and appeared to lose track of him for just a minute or two. They also say she didn't needlessly put the boy in danger by taking him to the zoo, and it could be argued that she surely trusted the zoo to have an enclosure that was childproof.
Q: What have the courts had to say about what constitutes child endangerment?
A: An appeals court in Ohio reversed a man's conviction for leaving a 5-year-old girl unattended on a playground near his apartment. The ruling cited other Ohio cases in which courts ruled that a mother who left her 9-year-old son in a locked car at a shopping mall and a mom who left her toddler unattended in a bathtub for 30 seconds to 4 minutes to check on another child weren't guilty of a crime.
Q: Have other parents been charged with putting a child in danger at a zoo?
A: Just a year ago, a judge sentenced an Ohio woman to probation and parenting classes after she dropped her toddler into a Cleveland zoo's cheetah pit. The woman, who authorities say dangled her 2-year-old son over a railing, initially was charged with child endangering but pleaded no contest to aggravated trespassing. The boy broke his leg.
In 2013, a woman in New Mexico faced a child abuse charge after a bobcat attacked her 3-year-old son at a Carlsbad zoo. Witnesses told investigators that the woman, her brother and the boy crossed safety barriers in front of the exhibit and got up close to the bobcat's enclosure.
Q: Where was the mother in Cincinnati?
A: The family has not talked about what happened other than to say the boy is doing fine now. A woman who witnessed the boy's fall said she heard the youngster say he wanted to get in the water with the gorillas. She said the boy's mother was with several other young children and told him no.
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I think this boils down to more then the trip to the zoo. I raised my kids to behave, if we went to the zoo or anywhere in public like that, they wouldn't leave my side. Now I never had 6 kids at one time to watch over but if I knew one of my kids acted like a wild child in public I'd be sure to pay extra attention to him. And if my kid said he wanted to go swim with the Gorilla I would say, "Do you want to die??" Not just "No you're not!" Just like I always told them about going in the street when they were little. It boils down to discipline and this kid obviously had none...
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Mr.I your mind is clearly foggy. Not only did beast already post that image but you actually responded when he posted it with a pic of your own. Everything ok bro? How do you not remember that? Something Rado would do in a drugged out state.
You did something similar in the wolf injury thread. Posted the same links that people had already posted multiple times. I remember thinking to myself the irony of you not clicking on other people's Facebook links but expecting others to click on yours. Lol
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Lmao at this thread. Dead gorillas, shitty parenting, Hitler, Jews, WW2, Isreal, black people... It went to shit fast.
I believe the mother is to blame at this. When you have children, you have a responsibility to watch over and protect them. If you have 6 children and you're the only parent there, you better damn make sure each kid isn't acting up.
Shitty situation for everyone, but the zoo made the right call to put down that gorillas before it potentially could have killed the child.
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Jeez skippy that's deep, yeah I'm dead tired I guessOriginally posted by Bouncer View PostMr.I your mind is clearly foggy. Not only did beast already post that image but you actually responded when he posted it with a pic of your own. Everything ok bro? How do you not remember that? Something Rado would do in a drugged out state.
You did something similar in the wolf injury thread. Posted the same links that people had already posted multiple times. I remember thinking to myself the irony of you not clicking on other people's Facebook links but expecting others to click on yours. Lol
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Told you I'm watching close. Concerned about mental breakdown and drug relapse.
Last thing we want is for your mind to end up in almost vegetable state that Rado has already sadly gone through. Like watching a baboon trying to solve a cross word puzzle. Tren and weed = early onset Alzheimer's.
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