More on the toddler who died at daycare

[Judy Trickett]

The ONLY way society is gonna be able to stop warehousing is to charge the parents as well as the providers. Let's face it, licensing doesn't suddenly make warehousers follow the rules. It just doesn't. It is illegal to steal but we still have thieves. It is illegal to kill but we still have murders. Legalities and licensing don't suddenly make people honest.

I'm sorry, but it downright negligent to have 27 kids in one house. Yes, the provider was negligent regardless of the cause of death. But so were the parents! Do NOT tell me, for one second, that the bulk of the parents were not aware that that there were too many kids there. And, ignorance of the law is NO excuse. These are THEIR children, for God's sake, it is the parents' JOB to know the law.

In cases like this both the provider AND the parent should be charged with negligence. When you leave your CHILD in an unsafe, illegal position you are then an accomplice. In ANY other crime this would be so. Why should it be different for warehouse daycare? Just because a child dies everyone says, "Oh, the parents have already suffered so much". But THEY, the parents, LEFT that child in that unsafe, negligent situation. Both the provider AND the parents share the blame and responsibility for this death.