I can blame the parent for bad parenting and call myself informed and everyone else should be ... because I know about bats carrying rabies
But I also know that most people have no clue that any of this can happen .... it's the first case of someone dying from rabies in Ontario from an infection that originated in Ontario since 1967 .... people have no clue that this is even possible in this day in age
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rabies-death-1.7341335
About eight or ten years ago I woke up one night in my cottage to a bat flying around my place. It was dark inside and I saw this thing fluttering around in my room. I opened a window and let it out and never thought anything of it. About a year later, I happened to be reading some stuff about rabies .... the hair in the back of my neck went up and it's freaked me out since.
After that bat in my room, I never went for treatment, I never got checked out and I never thought anything of it. It's been about ten years and I keep worrying that some day I'll start feeling the effects of it. I think most people in Ontario would do the same because everyone thinks we got rid of rabies decades ago or that it is a third world disease that isn't possible here.
I feel terrible for that parent .... death from rabies is a horrible way to die and it happened to this child with their parents watching it all happen.
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy ... let alone someone I would accuse of bad parenting.