On Saturday, Oct. 13, there was a horrible accident on M-50. A minivan full with a family rolled and a 8-year-old boy was thrown from the vehicle and was killed. Jackson Citizen Patriot published a story about the accident. It was an update to the original story that they didn't know the details of the accident or the victims.
While reading the updated story about the accident online, I began to read further down at the comments. I couldn't believe my eyes at what people were saying. The community was talking about how the mother, who was driving, didn't buckle her child up and that is why he died. How she is a horrible mother for what she had done.
I understand that the child wasn't buckled up. And I do understand that there was four other adults in the van and a 12-year-old also in the van. Now, the child is 8 and knows that he needs to be buckled in a vehicle. He shouldn't have to be buckled in by an adult.
And who knows what was going on in the vehicle, the child could have dropped a toy and unbuckled himself to reach down and get it, and they got into the accident. Or he could have unbuckled himself just because.
The mother is going to have to live with this for the rest of her life. She will always blame herself for this. People will still look at her like a murderer, and they will all blame her, but why voice that opinion. I do understand the freedom of speech, but when you have rude comments like this, to a family who is hurting so bad, why would you want to hurt them even more with your comments?
This goes with Ryan's blog about the murder that happened in his town and the murderer's Facebook account getting posted around with the horrible comments on there with children who have access to the Internet. Why not keep them to yourself?
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