CRON posted...
It's understandable why the zoo acted cautiously but the chances of the child being potentially dead were nonexistent. The exact situation has happened before in recent history and there were no fatalities or animal-related injuries. If anything the fact that the kid was close to a silverback greatly reduced the chances of the situation getting worse.
It was a horrible situation all around but the fact of the matter is the staff of the zoo made what they felt to be the right decision and the child fortunately
wasn't
injured. The parents should still be viewed as irresponsible morons though.
Do you think there could be other consequences/harm of a child being dragged through water repeatedly by a gorilla besides death?
Can you think of any other worse parents? Or is she the one parent we should place all parental sins on? Do irresponsible moron parents deserve to have their child in danger? That's a child in danger, not the adult.
Maybe it's the zoos infrastructure that should be updated to not allow this to happen in the first place. Let's just have wild tigers roam the zoo and we can blame parents if the parents can't save them.