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Two drownings in two weeks....
August 06, 2007Seriously folks, how many kids sinking to the bottom of pools does it take before parents will take some freaking responsibility for their kids.
Nothing in the world frustrates me as much as kids running all kinds of chaotic loose without proper supervision.
As bad as it is for the parents who lose their child.... it's the people like my sister that I worry about.
She is a respitory therapist at Cooks Children in Fort Worth. Daily, she deals with kids dying because of the mistakes of their parents. DAILY.
Case in point....
FORT WORTH -- Police are awaiting lab results to confirm their suspicions that a 39-year-old man was drunk early this morning during an all-terrain vehicle crash that left his 12-year-old daughter seriously injured.Emergency crews were called to the 7600 block of Parkwood Plaza about 3 a.m. after a caller reported that the vehicle had rolled over on the street and that two people were injured. When they arrived, they found 39-year-old Louie Esparza kneeling over his 12-year-old daughter, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, police spokesman.
Esparza told police that he was driving his camouflage E-Z-Go vehicle — similar to a golf cart — in the 7600 block of Parkwood Plaza Drive when he lost control and the vehicle rolled over near the intersection of Haun Drive.
During the crash the cart rolled atop of the girl, police said, resulting in a severe head injury and numerous abrasions.
The girl was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center where she was last listed in serious condition, police said.
Believing that Esparza was intoxicated and after finding evidence of alcohol in the debris from the crash, police arrested Esparza on suspicion of intoxication assault and injury to a child. He was later released from custody pending the findings of his blood alcohol level.
The residential neighborhood is northwest of the intersection with U.S. 377 and Basswood Boulevard and west of Fort Worth’s boundary with Watauga.
Check back for details.
Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655
What the heck is a 12-yr old doing up at 3 a.m. hanging out with her drunk father riding around in an all-terain golf cart?
I'd be willing to bet that my little sister is helping that child breathe through a machine at the moment.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 01:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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:( stupidity never fails to astound me.
