From Deseret News archives:
Mom shouldn't be charged
Mr. Rawlings was not required to file charges. He claims the decision was based on "fact, law, public policy and humanity."
Mr. Rawlings should take a lesson from the 2002 Utah case of Paul Wayment. Wayment plead no contest to negligent homicide after his 2-year-old son, Gage, died after getting out and wandering away from their truck while on a deer-scouting trip. Wayment took his own life the day before he was to report for jail.
Why spend tax-payers' money to put Hadley through these proceedings? I urge Mr. Rawlings to do the humane thing and drop the charges. It was a tragic mistake that deserves to be treated with forgiveness and empathy, not condemnation and punishment.
Kate Smith
Bountiful
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