Why do I have no sympathy for this?
Yes I know this is DL and not some parenting site but this makes me furious. I mean these parents let their children be devoured by savage wild life and get off free because 'I wasn't thinking.' It's like jumping off a cliff and on the way down thinking oh I forgot this was dangerous or inviting rough trade to your house filled with priceless Madame Alexander Dolls and other treasures and then saying I forgot this was not a good idea.
You remember to go on holiday or show your kids nature and wildlife but you forget your kid is delicious food? These people fed an infant to a living dinosaur. They deserve the full punishment the law allows.
Ok I've never been a parent. I've never had an infant. But I know on this site gay or straight there must be people who have or have had infants. Can you explain to me how this happens? When I was a boy we had lots of big families all around with parents constantly overwhelmed by so many children but still piling them into the station wagon to do outings to dangerous rickety old amusement parks and jerry rigged thrill attractions, but I never heard of this happening. Maybe it did but we did not have the inter tubes back then. 'I forgot' seems the lamest excuse there is for dropping a baby into a pond filled with alligators.