Toddler drowns; woman who can't swim jailed for not jumping in

[email protected] wrote:

> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05278/582741.stm

> (Though one person argued that maybe she was really jailed for failing
> to prevent him from falling in to begin with and the reporter didn't
> get that. I doubt it, though I suspect she'd never have been convicted
> had one of the other non-swimmers drowned.)

I read about this in the local rag. Essentially, she and her boyfriend
foolishly took his child too close to the edge of a swollen stream so
they could gawk at the flooding. They were behaving like the rubes who
just have to visit the beach before a hurricane. He was pretty stupid
for letting a non-swimmer watch his son, but as the adult present when
the boy fell in, she bears the blame.

Coincidentally, soon-to-retire District Attorney Dave Gorman is one of
the stalwarts of my old masters team.