{"id":14944,"date":"2016-05-31T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14944"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:44:35","slug":"no-need-to-prosecute-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14944","title":{"rendered":"No need to prosecute parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harambe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14946\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harambe-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"harambe\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harambe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harambe-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harambe.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harambe&#8217;s death in the Cincinnati Zoo has sparked outrage around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s tragic. It shouldn&#8217;t have happened. It took no time at all for recriminations to start flying over the death of the rare gorilla that well could have killed a little boy who had fallen into the beast&#8217;s enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials did what they had to do. They shot Harambe to death to save the boy from potentially serious injury or death.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to blame? Who&#8217;s at fault? Who should pay for this?<\/p>\n<p>I will say here that the parents shouldn&#8217;t have to face criminal charges, nor civil penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they erred in taking their eyes of the tot long enough for him to climb through the barrier and fall into Harambe&#8217;s enclosure. Let&#8217;s not &#8220;go after&#8221; them for a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials say this is the first time in the venue&#8217;s history that this kind of event has occurred. It likely will be the last time &#8212; for a very long while.<\/p>\n<p>Does the Cincy Zoo need to do a better job of securing these enclosures from incursions made by curious children? Obviously, the answer is a resounding <em>&#8220;yes!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harambe was a 400-pound beast capable of doing horrific harm to the little intruder. Frankly, I&#8217;m amazed that the boy wasn&#8217;t hurt, given the way Harambe was tossing him around and dragging him through the water.<\/p>\n<p>Let us stop the recriminations and look now for solutions to prevent this from happening ever again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harambe&#8217;s death in the Cincinnati Zoo has sparked outrage around the world. Yes, it&#8217;s tragic. It shouldn&#8217;t have happened. It took no time at all for recriminations to start flying over the death of the rare gorilla that well could have killed a little boy who had fallen into the beast&#8217;s enclosure. Zoo officials did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No need to prosecute parents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6270,6268,6273],"class_list":["post-14944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cincinnati-zoo","tag-harambe","tag-mountain-gorilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14947,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14944\/revisions\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}