A 30-year-old woman in Marietta, Georgia was convicted of vehicular homicide this week – and she wasn’t even driving a car. The woman was crossing the street with her three children when a driver, who had been drinking, hit and killed her four-year-old.
WTF???
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More telling: the drunk driver with previous convictions for other hit and runs got 6 months. The mother gets 36 months. One can only hope terms of parole are different?
Yep, the world turned upside down. Goes to one of my themes: that the loss of a child is punishment enough===even for Casey Anthony. Takes a Karmic frame of reference, which I don’t believe in, but the reference can still be utilized.
What a country.
@#1 Look at who did what and who got punished for what. Drunk got punishment for drunk driving and fleeing site of accident. However (no matter how much you dislike it) by the law in Georgia (pedestrians MUST cross on marked crossing and are NOT allowed to cross wherever) mother was the person who have caused accident by behaving illegally on the road. As the person who did something wrong in traffic that ended in accident she is guilty of vehicular homocide (as much as she would be guilty of it if she was crossing street on red light and drunk driver with right of way came along).
Yes it looks mean but Law is and must be blind.
Yeah, running over her child wasn’t punishment enough. Isn’t it weird that she gets more time than the mother(fucker) that planned and killed her child intentionally?
Jaywalking killed this child, not the drinking driver.
#2–Well now dismal, you must be cumming in your pants over the fantasy of a poor woman being prosecuted for homocide “under the law.” Law and Order man huh?
YOU KNOW: the roots of this is the “Felony Murder Rule” where the initiating crime was “so serious” that any death or injury resulting therefrom was charged against the initial illegal actor. But it was a FELONY as related in the title of the rule. Is jaywalking a felony? Gosh, I hope not since “everyone” does it.
But the law is supposed to met out its punishments proportionate to the heinousness of the crime. How can the third offending drunk driver not be more responsible than the mother? Even a dismal disgrace of a human being law and order man should have a concern about that one—were he not more interested in whats going on in his pants. So self interested.
The mother is victimized by not having enough money for her own car but still raising her kiddies, probably on her own as the guy is gone, victimized again by not having any public transportation, victimized by not having properly designed safe crosswalks out in what looks like the country, victimized again by losing her child who I assume she loved, and now by the likes of dismal.
Makes me hate the common man so much, I might start voting puke. Heh, heh. That’ll teach all these law breakers.
Yea, verily.
#5 Another dogmatic example from the ever blabber Dumbbo. I hope you pass that estrogenic phase soon
#6 – All I see in your comment is name-calling, without any type of reasoned response. Care to explain why your abilities at civil discourse are so severely lacking?
Out in six months and 1 hour later hitting a bar and a road near you.
Come to Canada where every trial with every stolen car and dead innocent victims always seems to end up that its the victim’s fault and with the drivers -society has wronged them
and it all goes back to residential schools
more money to be paid out
when will it all end ?
#7 Is interesting you saw my name calling but forgo to take notice of the name calling of the person I was answering to. I’ll leave it at that because I think you’re being sincere in your assessment, only have a better look at the whole picture.
Usually, I treat people the way they deserve.
Then again, post #5 is so full of useless words that I kinda forgive your haste. I seldom read that poster seriously anymore.
#10–PedoBreath==hah,hah. Hurting just a little bit? You have been correctly called out by a casual poster here at DU. Yes, I name call and belittle—but its the rhetorical spice on substantial criticism. You offer nothing but empty calories==no thinking at all.
You save most of your estrogenic remarks for Dallas. I think secretly kinda likes being a foil to your stupidity. For me, its water off a ducks back. I like insults with a little class, a little word play BUT even then only when attached to something substantive. You offer neither.
Get clever. Get funny. Get relevant. Get a dictionary. Estrogenic means nothing–its about as insightful as Alfie calling everything progressive except Alfie could be right 10-20% of the time if he could ever figure out what gets his motor running. Nothing is estrogenic on this blog except Sister Mary Handgrenade. Ha, ha. And you only have to be close with hand grenades.
Pedro==I’ve seen you post intelligently 3-4 times. When you get criticized for your standard product, you should man up—not estrogenically ooze out.
Ha, ha. What a dolt.
Read some of other news stories around this. 1/2 mile walk to the nearest cross walk. They were waiting on the median and the kid stepped off.
Take the drunk driver, prosecutor, the jury, and the judge (for not dismissing the charges out of hand) and let the mother run them over with a steam roller.
He JCD, can’t we get rid of bobbo, … as he just makes noise and waste everybody’s time skipping over his insane screeds.
Fun’s fun but this is really boring.
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This would require something a strict constructist judge is not capable of, rendering a just and fair opinion and doing some, gasp, advocating from the bench.
He should have thrown the fuckin’ book at the drunk driver (which the guy deserved, get this god damn scum bucket off the damn streets,) but have limited the recourse the grieving parents could seek because they had been engaged in an illegal activity at the time (though the crime of jay walking rarely carries the death penalty.)
What the fuck is wrong with people? Shit…
Common sense would “hope” that all the facts are not presented? LIke the Mom was drunk or drugged out? Or maybe there is a specific law on the books for children hit while jaywalking with Mom?
“There but for the grace of God go we all.”
Hmmm. Actually, god is even worse.
Never mind.
I blame the neocons for this. “Southern justice” reads well in the paper, being “tough on crime” has its negative side.
You get heartless bastards on the bench who throw the book at a jaywalking family. Fuck that.
#7 – He is probably in this country illegally and when he’s not here talking out his ass he is hanging out in front of Home Depot trying to get day jobs.
#11 Another lengthy lame post by Dumbbo, the sheeple in estrogenic phase.
Too bad for you that intelligence is not measure by how many words you can write that mean absolutely nothing, otherwise you’d be the brightest star on the blog. I’ll call the MENSA people and put your case for consideration.
Silly Dumbbo.
#17 Because you are a Special Ed kid, let me fix that post of yours:
“Mommy, he is probably in this country illegally and when he’s not here talking out his ass he is hanging out in front of Home Depot trying to get day jobs. Do something about him Mommy, please?”
There, fixed.
Where does it say the driver was drunk?
@#2 Where does it say the driver was drunk or punished for drinking and driving? Neither the linked post at Streetsblog, nor the article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, nor an account at the Daily Mail say he was drunk. None of them mention him being prosecuted or even temporarily charged with a drinking offense. Charges for first degree homicide and cruelty to children were dropped.
I’m not saying the guy is a saint. He is clearly a habitual hit-and-run driver who should be punished and shamed. But it serves no purpose to constantly assume that everyone who ever had a drink in their lives is now a drunk driver. And it’s dangerous to assume that if a driver had a drink, then no one else bears any responsibility for safety on the roadway. Such black and white portrayals lead to misguided attempts at fixing the problem with even tougher drinking and driving laws when a lot more could be accomplished by creating pedestrian friendly roadways and increased pedestrian safety awareness campaigns.
Links:
Streetsblog
AJC
DailyMail