Recently a 22-month old girl was hit by a van in the parking lot outside the family condo while her 30-year old mother was upstairs engrossed in Facebook. Apparently, the little girl was left unsupervised while she went about her business to keep herself amused. The mother’s negligence led to the little girl’s death.
Neighbors interviewed after the tragic accident confirmed the mother’s apparent lack of care for her children who had been seen running around in soiled diapers that sagged to their knees. Hopefully, before the tragedy this mother wasn't perpetually in the habit of spending her days on Facebook or surfing the Internet rather than looking after her children.
The driver of the van that killed the child wasn’t charged, but the mother was arrested for child abuse. Thank God for fair justice!
I wish that the mother used better judgment by having her child within a few feet in her presence at all times. If she couldn’t be kept from her Facebook activity, how hard would it have been to make sure that her child was within proximate distance? Why would she allow her child to play downstairs while she was on the second floor of the house glued to a social network? Accidents can happen at the blink of an eye, and human death can take place in a snap.
While I feel sympathy for this family, I cannot help but feel disgusted over the mother’s lack of common sense and parenting skill. Let’s face it, there are many so-called parents out there who don’t know the first thing about responsible parenthood. Unfortunately, the offsprings they bring into the world usually suffer from their incompetence.
Not too long ago, a mother killed her two children (ages 6 and 9) then attempted suicide. She and her husband were going through financial hardship and a divorce. Apparently, she would rather see her kids dead than share custody with her spouse. When her plan to kill herself fell through, she called 911. The cops who came to her home found the lifeless children in their room. It wasn’t immediately known what killed the kids who didn’t show any sign of trauma on their bodies.
Sad, isn’t it? The woman bore her children and made personal sacrifices to raise them only to end up snuffing their lives. It’s unthinkable, but the depressing reality is that many more mothers like her have committed similar crimes right in their own homes.
