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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Meanwhile a couple of parents in North Carolina are facing manslaughter charges after they let their kids walk to the grocery store while they guided them over the phone and one of them got hit and killed by a car.

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  • [+] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    I sure hope so, the kid basically ran into traffic. No crosswalk, completely unsupervised.

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    Yeah I agree it's fucked up that the parents are in trouble and the driver isn't. The article says the driver is 76... The father probably was jailed mostly for having the wrong skin color.

    I walked to school more blocks than that at a younger age. The article says the state doesn't have laws that specify what age the kids must be supervised at to leave their own home. This happened mere blocks from where they lived.

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