The near death of a little boy's life

You guys don't realize that these zookeepers work at this zoo for their life. They know the behavior of each animal and have had experience with them for a long time. The decision to shoot the gorilla was not a decision made lightly and it wouldn't have happened if the parents had any responsibility

 

You try taking care of kids, srsly stap blaming the mom everyone, people have blamed the zoo, the mom, the gorilla, the news, even the kid, but its not really anyones fault. The child ran off, the mother wasn't letting the child roam freely, the child was with the mother and ran off, then the child fell in, and gorillas don't act predictably, so the zoo decided to shoot the gorilla, which IMO isn't a bad idea. but its not the moms fault. Also, why is it the mothers fault? they were there with the father too.

 

The mother not only knew that her son was wanting to go inside, but she also knew he was young and might actually do it. She should have walked away from the exhibit, or told her husband to go somewhere else with the kid if she truly wanted to see the gorilla. Like the gorilla is not at fault here, only the parents.

 

ok then, why is it only the mothers fault? why isn't it the fathers fault? and how do you know that the child wanted to go inside?

 

It is both the parents fault, and the child was saying he wanted to go inside.

 

If you ever have to take care of kids, you will understand...

 

It may also be possible that this child only had a mum.
I grew up in Cincinnati, which is where this took place, and many kids I knew only lived with their mum or dad, so it's completely possible that the mother was an only parent, which is extremely difficult. She may have looked away for a couple seconds, to even blink, and he ran off.

 

Please read what's been going on before you post.

 

I dont understand what you mean by this.

 

If you read the posts above, tranquilizing the gorilla is not a good idea because it would have taken too long and the gorilla may have gotten angry and felt threatened due to the pain and harmed the kid

 

Im a big animal lover and I hate whe animals die. There's a lot of ways you can view this situation.

1. Bad parenting.

Who would let there 3 year old son walk behind you? As a kid, I was always told to walk infront of my parents so they can see me at all times.

2. Bad protection.

The zoo obviously had a bad fence around the gorilla exhibit, how long did it take the 3 year old to get in? What where the parents doing?

 

Ah ok thanks.

 

first of all, you don't just "fall" into a gorilla cage. like who just goes to the zoo and just accidentally slips into an animal exhibit? the gorilla shouldn't have been shot. the boy should have been extracted from the cage, and the parents given a book about parenting. the gorilla shouldn't have been harmed because he had nothing to do with the boy falling in the cage. On the other hand, if the gorilla had climbed out of the cage and deliberately taken a small child and dragged him around his cage, I could totally see the consequence of the gorilla being shot. But anyways, this whole incident is kinda stupid.

 

@kittynom the gorilla violently dragged the child across the enclosure.

 

yes and how did the kid get in the enclosure?

 

He climbed in, not the parents fault, and not his fault because he didn't know better. why does everyone immediatly look to assign blame and judge everyone involved?

 

It doesn't matter how it happened; it happened and so the gorilla had to be killed.

 

did people just stand around and watch the kid climb in the cage thinking, "oh nothing bad will happen to that kid"

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the gorilla should have been left unharmed. you just shouldn't kill endangered species.

 

It is the parent's fault. What kind of an idiot lets their kid climb into a pit containing a dangerous animal?

 

the dang gorilla probably would've raised the kid better than the mom