United States | News & Politics

2122 readers

1154 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

simsymbiote@midwest.social

Type1@midwest.social

125

Girl strangled by her own wheelchair as bus monitor texted, checked Instagram (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

10 years in prison is possible.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seems pretty light considering they basically killed a little girl. The fact that they dropped the manslaughter charges kind of upsets me too because the girl's death was directly caused by the bus monitor's actions. Or I guess lack of action and incompetence, but still.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Manslaughter wasn't "dropped." She was found not guilty of manslaughter, and guilty of child endangerment.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Regardless, if she was texting and driving and hit a pedestrian you bet their ass they would find her guilty of that. The circumstances may be different but the underlying cause is essentially the same thing.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

But no not really, the circumstances are different. The negligence is the fact that it was even possible for the strangulation to happen in the first place, that's a bad harness situation.