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Anonymous
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The grandpa who placed his granddaughter at the window of the cruise ship has been charged...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grandfather-salvatore-anello-charged-toddler-chloe-wiegand-cruise-ship-death-puerto-rico-2019-10-28/ |
Anonymous
| This scares the life out of me. Even reading the article? My stomach dropped. I don’t know if he should be charged or not but that poor baby’s horrific death is beyond tragic. |
Anonymous
| Good. He should be. |
Anonymous
| It was an accident. He should not be charged. |
Anonymous
| That story is horrifying but I’m not certain he should be charged. What will it accomplish? His life is already ruined. I can’t imagine what if’s like to live with himself. |
Anonymous
| This is just heartbreaking. I don’t believe that the cruise ship company is at fault, but I don’t believe the grandfather is either. It was just a tragic accident. |
Anonymous
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Everything about this is so terribly sad. I just have a very hard time understanding how this even happened. I hate that he is charged because I don't think that he meant for this to happen, yet, at the same time the level of his carelessness is just unfathomable to me. 99.99% of people would have realized that the window was open.
How did his mind malfunction and not grasp that the window was open? |
Anonymous
| I’m glad he was charged because of the lawsuit the family filed. |
Anonymous
| I suspect the grandfather didn't do himself any favors with the way he and the rest of the family were so fierce in blaming everyone but him. It's one thing when someone causes a death through their negligence and shows true remorse and takes responsibility for their actions, because then there's at least some reason to believe they get what they did wrong and won't do something similar again. But when someone causes another person's death through their own sheer carelessness and then wants to blame everyone else rather than acknowledge his own role in what happened, well, that's exactly the case you want to prosecute to make sure the person doesn't do something similar again. |
Anonymous
He did not intend to drop her but he was negligent. As in situations where others are charged when they cause another person’s death, Grandpa should be charged too. That said, I doubt anything will come from this. He’ll plead to a lower charge and there will be no jail time. |
Anonymous
This. Also, it would be interesting to hear what is on the video leading up to him dropping her. I would bet the video and statements from the eye witnesses make the prosecutor confident in the charge. |
Anonymous
Good points. As best as I can figure he was distracted and excited to be on the ship, probably looking around at the amenities and when his granddaughter pointed to the window he picked her up w/o looking where he was setting her? I was truly amazed at how the family, including both parents, were very quick to defend Grandpa and blame the cruise ship. It does sound as though he adored that little child. I'm not seeing any motive at all for him to harm her. I think that the lawyer who swooped in quickly to represent them had something to do with the lawsuit that the family brought against the cruise line, they needed some nameless, faceless thing to blame for this tragedy. |
Anonymous
| That's a pretty serious charge. Manslaughter is simply an accident that causes a death. Accident doesn't mean you no criminal charges. |
Anonymous
| Didn’t this happen AFTER their cruise? |
Anonymous
It was the start of the cruise. |