Board 8 > Punishing your children can earn you murder charges

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http://news.yahoo.com/2-charged-death-ala-girl-forced-run-082216169.html


Alright, so I (mostly) understand what happened, and it's terrible. The mother and the grandmother should definitely be held responsible in some way, I'm sure. But they're being charged with homicide? Child abuse, sure. Manslaughter, maybe. But legitimate murder charges because they forced their girl to run laps around the yard?

I realize there's plenty we don't know here. The article claims to not know whether she was physically forced to run or just driven verbally, and there's no mention of how quickly she had to "run." If she was whipped into a sprint for three hours, then yes, I understand the charges. But short of that, it seems like an overreaction....not that the punishment for lying about snaking a candy bar wasn't.

Seems fine to me. They forced her to run without water/stopping. I don't know the legalese for murder/manslaughter but they both should be locked up.

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damn

punishing your kid to death leads to murder charges? crazy

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SuperNiceDog barked up the right tree.

Criminally negligent homicide is still homicide.

This looks like clear-cut manslaughter at the very least.

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Charges like this tend to get inflated when you involve the children.

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Dumb topic is dumb.

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you should stay away from editorializing

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They should be charged with manslaughter, not homicide, but they deserve mass jail time either way.

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A charge isn't a conviction. Most likely they'll end up convicted of manslaughter or something.

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Accurate topic title: Punishing your children (in a way that kills them) can earn you murder charges.

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Well, to a kid verbal commands from adults can be as good as physical coercion.

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Let's be honest, this is just a tactic by the prosecution. They're going to offer a plea bargain deal to get it reduced to Manslaughter.

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May as well be considered murder.

Forcing a child to run like that without even a water bottle, for three hours straight in a hot place like Alabama? What the hell? Back when I was a kid, I'd get spanked and grounded for this, and it would be a fitting punishment.

This wasn't a punishment, this was torture. This is like making a child smoke a box of cigarettes for catching them smoking a single one. The simple fact is that certain parents can essentially command their child to die, and that's exactly what happened here.

I know we don't know all the details but, damn there just isn't any way for this to not look abominable.

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