https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/parents-are-charged-son-7-struck-dead-car-accident-rcna210918

The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins were charged two days after their son Legend died from injuries caused by being struck by a Jeep on May 27 in Gastonia, a rural town in North Carolina. The 76-year-old driver will not face any charges.

The Food Lion store is two blocks away from their home. The parents said the children were with their mother when they asked to meet their father at the store, and she allowed them to leave, according to The Gaston Gazette. The brothers had to cross the busy, four-lane road, but attempted to go between crosswalks.

>>1410171 (OP)
>The 76-year-old driver will not face any charges.

Boomers never lose

why the driver wont be charged?

>>1410408
>>1410403
9:1 odds the children were doing something retarded that made the driver not at fault in the incident

>>1410171 (OP)
I'M OUTRAGED!!!1 THEY OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!11

>>1410403
>>1410408
>>1410410
I'm siding with the boomers on this one since those retarded parents were likely Democrats raising future Democrats. I'd also ask why is a nearly 80 year old driving a vehicle but I could care less since those kids sound retarded and were likely gonna get killed sooner or later anyway. Also future democrats deserve death

>>1410443
You need to get right with God. Shame on you.

>>1410408
"make america great again" just means make it okay to lynch black people again

Jaywalking is a sin punishable by death

>but attempted to go between crosswalks.

Jaywalking, driver not at fault. Get rekt

>>1410473
esl spotted. pedestrians have right of way here in america

>>1410474
If you walk in front of a car in an active motorway and get hit its considered a suicide attempt, you are brown.

>>1410474
Depends on the state.

>>1410408
The kids were trying to jaywalk across a busy street in the evening, and according to a witness quoted in the article the 7 y/o suddenly darted out in front of an oncoming car and got hit.
The driver was not speeding or doing anything illegal, so they are not facing criminal charges. Their age may have been a factor in having slower reflexes to jam on the brakes in time, but the accident was ultimately caused by the kid running out into the roadway.

>>1410443
2/10 you hammed it up too much
Decent troll post though

>>1410408
>>1410604

It's apparently a 4-lane road, (maybe 5 lanes with a center turn lane?) so the speed limit is probably 40-45mph and thus WAY too fast with too much traffic for a 7 and 10 year old to cross on their own. This wasn't some quiet subdivision street.

That said, I dunno how throwing both parents in prison is going to help the surviving 10 year old kid, is he going to get sent to foster care?

So wait, they weren’t taught to look both ways before crossing? Or to use a crosswalk? Was the kid… special…?

>entire thread ignores the thing of interest in the article that the KID'S PARENTS ARE CHARGED WITH INV MANSLAUGHTER in order to blame the victim and nitpick about how "oh well he was jaywalking he was no angel!!"
lmao, reactionaries are quite something. this is what your car hell has turned you into, the kind of person making excuses for this system that thinks if the parents aren't put in jail well then they might just reoffend by having another of their children die by automobile

>>1410171 (OP)
Bet the boomer's gonna be on facebook within two weeks, bitching that kids these days are sheltered, and their parents used to kick them out and say don't come hone til supper. Why are lead huffers so soulless