PARENTS are responsible for the safety of their children.

[moriah]

118. I thought I made the circumstances pretty clear on those points in the first post.

1) The adult responsible for the children was the only adult available to care for them, and in poor health, but everyone else was working to make ends meet.
2) She wasn't taking care of them on her own property, where she could have had more control over the environment beyond the tools available.
3) That the children had cooperated to climb high enough to reach engaged locks, and that yes, they were high enough to require significant effort.
4) That she was doing her best and not being deliberately neglectful of the children.
5) That tbe children were living next door to an unfenced pond that had been deliberately left unfenced by the other side of the family even after deciding it was a pretty place to put the trailer where children would live.

Coming back with saying she was 100% responsible for the deaths simply because she was the one there makes me really question people's understanding of the fact we used to call these things tragedies and realize that no parent is perfect, has eyes in the back of their head, and hindsight is always 20/20.