100%. Stories like this are depressingly common here. Parents can be breathtakingly negligent, yet they're rarely held accountable, which simply encourages more carelessness and a complete lack of foresight. That said, it did make me think. Our car keys aren't locked away. My son could take the car keys from my wife's handbag or my bike keys from the drawer and go for a joyride. The difference is he knows the consequences would be so utterly Machiavellian he'd be measuring the passage of time in months before seeing anything resembling a privilege again. This, however, involved a child with special needs. Common sense alone would suggest that warrants greater safeguard. Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, but the risks were surely foreseeable. One almost wonders whether the parents themselves were equally incapable of appreciating them and had their own special needs issues. RIP to the monks. The responsibility for this tragedy lies squarely with the parents.
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