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The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

The 76-year-old driver will not face any charges.

The Food Lion store is two blocks away from their home. The parents said the children were with their mother when they asked to meet their father at the store, and she allowed them to leave

Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC News, but said in a statement that “there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed. The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Gastonia Police Department’s Traffic Division.”

Ivey, the mother, told WSOC before her arrest that it was the first time had she let the children walk alone. “It was just devastating, I’m still in shock, I’m in shock,” she said. “It’s hard, I haven’t stopped crying; my husband hasn’t stopped crying. Honestly, I want justice for my baby.”

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Walking 2 blocks to a store is such a foreign concept to most Americans that they feel its a crime to let kids walk that far unaccompaniedjoker-amerikkklap

Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC News, but said in a statement that “there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed. The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Gastonia Police Department’s Traffic Division.”

Two dead kids, no wrongdoings heredean-smile

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

porky-happy: “You wanna walk? Oh look at mr. Fancy pants here with his expensive fancy tastes! I see you have an appreciation for the finer things in life like me, kiddo! Too bad we decided walkability is for us rich folk only. Don’t worry, you poors just love wasting time and money on your cars, it makes me happy when you’re forced to hand over more money to me!”

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The article is trash and muddies the details. They were walking home from the store. Kids that age certainly are going to not want to be grocery shopping with their mom for long. One of the boys wasn’t hit, he was on the phone with the father who heard the whole incident.

The parents being a black dad and white mom probably has a lot to do with the charges in a state where anti miscegenation laws prevented interracial marriage until 1977. The driver and the police chief were alive and experienced relationships like this as illegal.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Negligence is an actual defense the porks are using.

“It’s not violence if it’s not what I INTEND to happen, your suffering is just a byproduct, nothing personal! Somehow me knowingly harming you doesn’t violate the NAP!”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

carbrain and racism, this fucking sucks man

death to america

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago

Yeah, only reason I opened the article was to check the negligence/tragedy chart. us-foreign-policy