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.”
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.