Originally Posted by
bgross
I guess that I'm just in 'denial': there has to be more to this story, like the mother was an urban ute crack ho with priors for child endangerment and her kids were running amok while she was in the bushes with a 'john'.
Otherwise I simply refuse to believe that a grieving mother would be sent to prison for a longer term than the effin' drunk who killed her kid, simply for crossing the street.
One does not have to go nearly as far to find soem explaination. Here are a couple more links to stories:
http://t4america.org/blog/2011/07/18...-perpetrators/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-hit-run.html
As to letting the driver off with less. As far as the initial accident is concerned it seems he was not at fault at all. According to the mother someone else ran across the road and her son followed.
The first link has an overhead shot of the site of the accident. I wish I knew if any of the poles in the shot are lightposts. If one is and they crossed elsewhere then not walking an extra 20-30 feet was the difference between crossing where it was lit, vrs in darkness.
On a legalistic view it looks like they had an intersection withing 50 feet and chose to cross away from the intersection. BUT if the intersection was not lit I can see deciding to cross elsewhere, where there is a useable median strip (The intersection is a T with turn lanes, far from ideal for crossing).
One thng is very clear, ther were others who got off the buss. This is not a no witnesses incident. But I have not seen anythign from any of them or fromthe trial transcript. Only what the mother says. For me that raises teh possibility that these sources all found enough an emotional story and then stopped looking any deeper.