10 years in prison is possible.
Her job was to make sure the girl was ok. The girl wasn’t strapped in correctly and then slowly slide down because she couldn’t make herself upright. Terrible…
Yeah I knew from the headline exactly what kind of situation it was that created this issue. Gross negligence at the least, manslaughter at the most. Absolutely unacceptable.
my wife had a nurse who was there to make sure she did not fall after hip surgery. Lookin at the phone the whole time.
A reminder that cops can’t be sued for the same negligence. Also a reminder: punch up, not down
Complacency kills.
“I made a mistake, but you guys are trying to put me away for 10 to 20 years—on a mistake,”
A mistake?
A mistake is when you hit reply all to an email to talk shit about your boss. A mistake is when you push a door clearly marked pull. My son not wearing the wrist strap on his VR controller and breaking the TV was a mistake.
A girl dying because you couldn’t be bothered to put your goddamned phone down and do your fucking job is not a mistake.
Mistakes don’t result in the death or serious harm of another person.
It’s all fucked, but if you read on you’ll see that it is possible that she was put in a position where she may have been required her not to pay attention to the kid - by that I mean her employer required her to use her cell… Which would distract her. For the whole bus ride? Definitely doesn’t sound like it…but caused her to have distractions, absolutely.
It’s mostly her fault, but don’t excuse management for her conflicting job duties. They should share the sentencing - everyone who has a say in the affected company policies. That’d fix the problem and future problems. We’ll probably stick it all on her as a person failure though.
Any workplace safety advocate will tell you that mistakes do, in fact, result in bodily harm and death.
Mistakes don’t result in the death or serious harm of another person.
They frequently do, actually.
And when looked at closer it’s mostly negligences not mistakes.
It’s both. Negligence is a type of mistake.
Yeah an avoidable one. That’s why it’s specifically called negligence.
Except it only takes a single second to make someone make a mistake. There are so many factors.
That’s funny, because when I’ve advocated making driving a strict-liability activity, the usual response is that we shouldn’t “ruin people’s lives” over a mistake that killed somebody.
It’s one thing when something unavoidable happens like a kid darting out from behind a truck and not being able to stop in time. It’s another thing if someone is willfully not paying attention and careens into a crosswalk full of children. So I would both agree and disagree with your sentiment depending on the circumstances.
“Oopsie, accidentally shot a ceo 😅”
tbf this also was no mistake
Maybe he mistook the CEO for an illegal murderer.
Seems pretty light considering they basically killed a little girl. The fact that they dropped the manslaughter charges kind of upsets me too because the girl’s death was directly caused by the bus monitor’s actions. Or I guess lack of action and incompetence, but still.
Manslaughter wasn’t “dropped.” She was found not guilty of manslaughter, and guilty of child endangerment.
Regardless, if she was texting and driving and hit a pedestrian you bet their ass they would find her guilty of that. The circumstances may be different but the underlying cause is essentially the same thing.
But no not really, the circumstances are different. The negligence is the fact that it was even possible for the strangulation to happen in the first place, that’s a bad harness situation.
