The guy who left his kid in the car

I don't think it's fair to second-guess juries when they are there for hours of testimony, and I'm just watching it on "Dateline" or "48 Hours", but this one kind of bothers me.

First off, it seems completely possible to forget your kid is in the backseat. You do a routine every day, you skip it one day accidentally, and you probably think you did it because REMEMBER doing it every other day. That isn't just crackpot psychology. Second, it always bother me when the police "go with their gut" about someone's guilt. Human beings need to use their BRAINS sometimes, not their "hearts" and certainly not their "guts". If you have never interviewed a guy who accidentally killed his kid by leaving him a hot car, how would you know how he's supposed to act? Many small-town cops frankly are more experienced with being penny-ante bullies than they are with homicide.

I also don't quite trust Southern "Christian" juries when it comes to anything to do with S-E-X. Because a guy is addicted to porn and "sexting" and cheats on his wife, doesn't mean he'd kill his own kid. Because certain guys have had motives like that, doesn't mean that the VAST MAJORITY of porn addicts and adulterers would even consider killing their kid. Why not get divorced or simply abandon your family? Or happily just continue secretly "sexting" and cheating? The "sexting" seems a lot more likely to have DISTRACTED the guy then caused him to commit murder. But in the minds of "Christians" if you commit one minor sin, you must be the kind of "evil" person that would commit ANY sin. Maybe I'm not being fair to the jury here, but that is a problem in "Christian" America.

I don't know, my "gut" tells me they compounded the tragedy by throwing an innocent man in jail, so let's hope these other people--who were in the position to do so--used their BRAINS, and I'm wrong.




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