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The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 80 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What??? In Switzerland we walked to school by ourselves at age of 4.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same here in Germany. Imagine getting killed right around the corner.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And then the parents getting blamed instead of driver??

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Victim blaming is basically the rule here.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 points 2 days ago

I did in America too.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago

They've written vague laws about leaving children unaccompanied unreasonably. If you leave your 13 year old alone for a week then that's child abuse probably. So this is the outcome of those laws.