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ProfessorGAC

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3. In A Pandemic That By Year End...

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 01:12 PM

Sep 2020

...will have killed at least 250,000 people, this action seems to fit the definition of reckless endangerment.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's the Find Law definition.

Reckless Endangerment
reckless endangerment n

: the criminal offense of recklessly engaging in conduct that creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury or death to another person. Whether you meant any harm or not, creating a situation that puts someone else at risk is illegal.

Examples can include driving carelessly, car accidents, workplace accidents, child abuse, hospital abuse, etc.

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A Massachusetts teenager tested positive for the coronavirus. His parents sent him to school anyway. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP

There needs to be some sort of fine or punishment for this behavior. iemitsu Sep 2020 #1

In A Pandemic That By Year End... ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #3

I'm not surprised. Parents send their contagious children to school with everything no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 #2

He is in high school bottomofthehill Sep 2020 #4

I'm not sure I believe their excuse. crickets Sep 2020 #5

I'm sure he's not the first by a long shot. Cuthbert Allgood Sep 2020 #6

If anyone dies from this exposure, try the parents for manslaughter. roamer65 Sep 2020 #7

Laws against spreading communicable diseases are pretty weak Klaralven Sep 2020 #8

Or ignorant people spinbaby Sep 2020 #9

Was he armed? lame54 Sep 2020 #10