Re: Father of quad-bike girl charged with manslaughter.

thagor2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

So, instead of convicting the driver who did the actual killing, the
father, who has already suffered the agony of his daughter's death
due to his negligence, is now convicted of manslaughter no less.

Good.

I don't think so. The guy made a stupid error of judgement and lost his
daughter because of it. he's suffered enough.

There's stupid errors of judgement - and there's stupid errors of
judgement.

How is banging him up for manslaughter going to benefit anyone? Seems
to me this is a classic case of the law being vindictive because it can.

Not really. If that was a valid argument, then you can certainly see the
defence lawyer in a case like that of Khyra Ishaq - the 7yo starved to
death by her mother & stepfather - trying to trot that line out.

This fuckwit made a _monumentally_ fuckwitted decision, which led
DIRECTLY to the death of a child in his care. Don't forget that even
after the collision, he made the situation even worse by refusing to let
an ambulance be called to the scene, taking the kid home instead.

It's far more serious than merely "an error of judgement".
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