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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.

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Manslaughter wasn’t “dropped.” She was found not guilty of manslaughter, and guilty of child endangerment.

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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.

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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.

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