I feel that if a third party (daycare provider, bus company, aunt/uncle...) would be charged with a crime, then the parents should also be charged. Is it a sad, tragic accident? Yes. (well, maybe not in this particular case, we shall see...) But it is a sad, tragic accident regardless of who the perpetrator is. So if I, as a daycare provider, would be charged, then the parents should be charged for doing exactly the same thing. The same for SIDS deaths, if they are going to investigate the daycare provider, and charge them when safe sleep practices weren't adhered to, then they better investigate and charge the parents, too! A crime shouldn't be dependent on who the caregiver is, it is either a crime or not.

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