Abandoning Parental Responsibility.
Apparently, state health protocol requires that the animals be destroyed because the 9-year old girl’s family didn’t want the girl to have rabies shots (which might be painful).
For the child to put her hand into the enclosure, she had to work hard to get her hand inside:
Zoo officials said she must have crawled over a driftwood barrier, climbed up more than 3 feet of artificial rock and reached over 4 feet of Plexiglas to get her arm into the exhibit.
And the parents were doing what at this point? Was the child unattended? Did the parents just watch? Regardless, shouldn’t a 9 year old know better? Who goes to the zoo and sticks their hands into cages? And do they get what they deserve?
At this point, I’m not angry because some cute animals had to be put down. I’m just lamenting the stupidity of the general populace.
