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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the people who say the parents are not at fault... If a babysitter or nanny had let the little boy wade in the water and he was attacked, who would everyone be blaming? Wouldn't the babysitter take the heat for this?

An accident out of everyone's control would be a plane crashing into the hotel or hotel room. If you allow your child to do something and they become injured because you allowed it, is it not your fault? As terrible as it is, children rely on adults for direction in good and bad situations. If he had run off like gorilla kid... That would be out of the parents control but there's a difference between him running off and being allowed to go in because they were in the water.

Do we know if he ran off or was given permission to enter the water? [/quote]

It sounds like the father was right there with the boy if the father got scratched by the gator.  They had been seeing others in that water, they weren't out swimming in it.  They were having carefree fun and then this unthinkable tragedy happened.  If they had thought for a second that something like that could happen to their precious little boy they would never have gotten near that water.

Now the rest of us can learn from it.  That's all we can do with this heartbreaking lesson.[/quote]

From what I understand from alligator experts, if the father/another adult was right there with the child, the alligator probably wouldn't have attacked.  The gator would have been scared off by the size of the adult.  I think the boy was alone, but the parents were nearby and able to quickly go after the gator once they realized what was happening.  The boy was the size of small prey and probably made splashes like small prey.[/quote]

This.  I have read nothing about how close the father was, but I doubt he was right next to his child.  Alligators aren't fast animals.  If the dad was in the vicinity, but right to him, he still could have wrestled with the gator.  If the dad was right next to the child, I don't think the gator would have attacked.  Also, reports have varied as to how deep the child was, ranging from 2-3 inches to 1 foot.  If the child was only 2-3 inches in the water, the gator would have had to have been above the surface and visible before the attack.  I feel horrible for these poor parents, but there are enough elements to this story that lead me to believe they could have prevented this had they been reasonable careful.  [/quote]

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