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If this person worked as let's say a housecleaner, waitress or cashier wouldn't it be a slam dunk that she would be prosecuted (and have her other child taken away)?

~ Rick

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Rick,

No her other child has not been taken away. According to the prosecutor and her friends, she is an excellent parent [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

A number of people here in Cincinnati happen to agree with you. Just recently we've seen a poor mom lose custody of her kids after leaving them in a car while she went into some store or something (they were not injured), and another mom lose custody of her kids because her house was filthy. Another couple lost custody of their 2 year old after failure to watch her in the front yard. She was found alone, playing in the gutter of her street. All 3 of these moms were of a lower socio-economic class than Brenda Slaby.

Do you think the prosecutor is swayed by her status (she lives in an upscale community and drives a Mercedes, I believe) or do you think he is merely compassionate and gets that it was an unintentional accident?