UPDATE: Cincinnati Police Zero In On Parents in Zoo Incident

[avebury]

17. The problem with your theory is that the zoo did not let the

4 year old in to the gorilla exhibit. The child tresspassed when he entered an area where the public is not allowed. The zoo had a 38 year clean record where the gorilla exhibit is concerned in which nobody ever attempted to enter the exhibit. This demonstrates that most adults are responsible in monitoring children under their care at the zoo. They would have had no reason to think that a parent would at minimum, show a total lack of common sense and keep hold of a child who repeatedly talked about going into the exhibit to play with the gorillas.

For the zoo to allow the child entry into the gorilla exhibit would be contingent upon the zoo being given prior notice of the child's intent and taking an active action in concurrence with the boy's actions. They did neither.

The mother, on the other hand, had ample notice of the boy's intent and failed to act in a responsible manner and is thus complicit in the death of an endangered animal.

The zoo will not take additional actions to safeguard the gorillsa in the exhibit because, yes, there are actually stupid people out there.