yesterday i saw a news story that disturbed me (shocker!). some time ago, maybe a year or so, a woman was walking with her children. she jaywalked and a drunk driver hit her four year old son, killing the boy. the driver of the car admitted to drinking alcohol and taking prescription painkillers earlier in the evening. clearly guilty, right.....? he got six months in jail. six months. then, to add insult to injury, his lawyers are now in the process of charging the mother with several criminal counts, including jaywalking, some kind of accessory to vehicular homicide charge, and a couple others. if she is convicted, she will end up serving more time than the man who killed her son!
now, i fully understand that she broke the law by jaywalking. i get that. give her a jaywalking ticket and let that be the end of it. i also understand that if she had NOT been jaywalking, it's very well possible that her son would not have been struck and killed. but she was. further, i could even go so far as to speculate that the intoxicated driver may have made it home safe and sound with no incident. but he didnt. so he only served six months, and i say he got a heck of a deal. two wrongs dont make a right, but he got off easy and she should too. God knows both of them will have to suffer for the rest of their lives knowing that their reckless actions caused the death of another person, an innocent person, a CHILD who had his whole life ahead of him.
i wish i could shake the sh*t out of those lawyers.
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