Several years ago, locally, a 16-year-old girl was tragically killed in a house fire—because her parents had her chained to her bed.
After they were given appropriately long prison sentences for her death, the father vented to any who would listen. While he admitted a “possible error in judgment” over chaining her to her bed, he justified the action as being warranted and needed.
According to reports, he then said it wasn’t his—or his wife’s—fault, launching into a tirade of blame.
He accused the local school system, the children’s protective service, the local law enforcement agency, and the state, asserting that they either knew about—or should have known about—the situation and intervened.
These diverse and varied authorities should have stepped in, he claimed, to help them properly raise their daughter and prevent her unfortunate death.
I’m not sure what bothers me more, a child being chained up and dying in a fire or the people who caused her death claiming that it wasn’t their fault.
What were they thinking?
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