The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.
The 76-year-old driver will not face any charges.
The Food Lion store is two blocks away from their home. The parents said the children were with their mother when they asked to meet their father at the store, and she allowed them to leave
Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC News, but said in a statement that “there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed. The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Gastonia Police Department’s Traffic Division.”
Ivey, the mother, told WSOC before her arrest that it was the first time had she let the children walk alone. “It was just devastating, I’m still in shock, I’m in shock,” she said. “It’s hard, I haven’t stopped crying; my husband hasn’t stopped crying. Honestly, I want justice for my baby.”
Walking 2 blocks to a store is such a foreign concept to most Americans that they feel its a crime to let kids walk that far unaccompanied
Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC News, but said in a statement that “there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed. The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Gastonia Police Department’s Traffic Division.”
Two dead kids, no wrongdoings here
The article is trash and muddies the details. They were walking home from the store. Kids that age certainly are going to not want to be grocery shopping with their mom for long. One of the boys wasn’t hit, he was on the phone with the father who heard the whole incident.
The parents being a black dad and white mom probably has a lot to do with the charges in a state where anti miscegenation laws prevented interracial marriage until 1977. The driver and the police chief were alive and experienced relationships like this as illegal.
Yeah, only reason I opened the article was to check the negligence/tragedy chart.
Negligence is an actual defense the porks are using.
“It’s not violence if it’s not what I INTEND to happen, your suffering is just a byproduct, nothing personal! Somehow me knowingly harming you doesn’t violate the NAP!”
carbrain and racism, this fucking sucks man
death to america
: “You wanna walk? Oh look at mr. Fancy pants here with his expensive fancy tastes! I see you have an appreciation for the finer things in life like me, kiddo! Too bad we decided walkability is for us rich folk only. Don’t worry, you poors just love wasting time and money on your cars, it makes me happy when you’re forced to hand over more money to me!”
“In such cases, adults must be held accountable for their responsibilities to ensure a safe environment for their children,” police said in a statement.
I think the only way I can interpret this is for parents to begin a firebombing campaign against all unoccupied motor vehicles found in their area. Parents need to, according to this pig, ensure a safe environment for their children. That could only mean the utter destruction of every high velocity metal weapon on wheels within their immediate area, what else could it mean? Two blocks from any home would, I think, constitute their immediate environment. Spike strips on main roads. Sugar in gas tanks. Pierced tires in parking lots. The destruction will end when they have created a safe environment for their children. Anyone objecting to this action by extension would be a tangential threat to their child’s safety, and should be moved from the environment into another environment where there are no children.
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Back in my day, I would walk to school by myself when I was in elementary school. By middle school, I was walking two blocks to hang out at a friend’s house every weekend. I would walk to the corner store at the end of the street to buy snacks if I had the money. I would ride my bike a handful of miles from home to go to the arcade at the mall nearby. In the 80s they made movies about kids walking along train tracks to find a dead body!I mean, the obvious motivation here is racism, as other commenters have pointed out.
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Everybody is expected to be a “cop” and police everybody else’s behavior at all times.
Parents have the right to defend
themselvestheir children.
“All Cops Are Bastards” gang
“All Cars Are Burning” gangAll unoccupied motor vehicles in the vicinity? That hardly solves the problem. Those things can travel through that “immediate area” range in one minute.
I take care of my area and you take care of yours and so on down the line, then by god there won’t be a car left.
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The expectation that people are responsible in any way for what they do behind the wheel of a car is long gone. My favourite example, and I do bring this up often, is people referring to accidents with nobody but them involved other than a tree or something in the passive as “having been in a car accident”. It’s not even my fault if I take a corner too fast and slide sideways into a tree, that tree shouldn’t have been there, that road should’ve been straighter.
Everyone seems obsessed, or rather I should say that capital is obsessed, with blaming parents for shit that’s clearly society’s fault. Kids not going to school, kids not succeeding, kids being hungry, kids being bored and causing trouble. To me it’s obvious that it’s just a way to shift more unpaid labour onto people.
I definitely don’t mean this as an antinatalist argument. But it’s funny/sad how leaders complain that people don’t want to have kids, all the while making it as hard as possible to have kids.
They should really rephrase going to school because, as the article proves, that act is just illigal now in the states.
Like holy fuck are you cooked. I can’t even find words for how deeply wrong and fucked up this all feels.
1.5 million bond??? For losing your son? This is nothing but racism
North Carolina is a fucked up place. Very car dependent culture. I don’t think the parents should be charged. A 76 year old probably shouldn’t be driving.
fuck prosecutors
prosecutorsI just genuinely don’t understand what the prosecutors in this case think they’re fucking doing. They’re going to waste a ton of fucking time and money to send the parents to prison and fuck up the other kid’s childhood. There is no dangerous criminal to be isolated from society, they’re just making everything worse. How can they live with themselves?
In a car brained society, so something like the US, prosecutors will often sympathize way harder with the car driver than anybody else unless there’s two of them involved.
They can see themselves whoopsy-ing a child to death in their car much more than they can see themselves having children or alternatively not keeping those children imprisoned until they can drive their own cars or being somewhere where “this sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
Sometimes it’s a bit more subtle, like here, but surprisingly often prosecution or even the judges will just directly come out and say such things. It’s just most car “accidents” don’t make any sort of national or even regional news on account of how ubiquitous they are so it’s mostly buried in boring ass local court files.
atp i think they’re just ontologically evil
Cars always get the cop treatment in the Burger Reich.
I’ve never understood manslaughter as a charge, what is the obsession of sending someone to prison for an accident?
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Of course, we will never see oil and gas companies get charged for macro-level manslaughter.
: “Me? A murderer? Oh nononono kiddo, you see, it’s not like I PERSONALLY wanted to hurt people, I just wanted to make money and other people just so happened to be collateral damage! It’s not like I MEANT it!”Or mining companies involved in multiple environmental disasters that killed the river they took their name from. Also not nearly enough compensation for all of the people that lost their homes and everything they owned
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After reading a few more comments, they were walking home from the store, and the 10 year old was on the phone with his father.
At that age I had to walk 4 blocks to catch the bus to school, and cell phones weren’t a thing yet.
Money
punishment fetish
The criminalization of accidents (unless the driver was indeed speeding) is an underexposed aspect of the US criminal “justice” system, and when paired with the phenomenon of affluenza where elites are simply not prosecuted for crimes…
The only conclusion to draw is that this case like so many, is an example of racial class warfare
Extremely sad.
The brothers had to cross the busy, four-lane road, but attempted to go between crosswalks.
Please use crosswalks.
Please use crosswalks.
I think this is rather the wrong thing to take away from this whole thing
It’s pretty common in
for cars to ignore crosswalks. I get honked at frequently by assholes whenever I stop for people.
Suburbs are designed for social murder.
