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Innocent mistakes resulting in death

that time of year again, when temperatures begin rising to dangerous levels. This week I read yet again about the profound tragedy of two children accidentally dying at the hands of their own parent. A parent who had thought he dropped his children off at daycare, didn’t. By mistake — all too incomprehensible yet all too human — the parent, in fact, forgot the kids in the back of his car. It was a boiling day in the Israeli Middle East. He went off to his day of teaching. Locked in the heat, his children tragically died of heatstroke. Was it murder, manslaughter, negligence? It’s an innocent, harrowing and haunting tragedy, is what it is. One for which all we can feel is unending compassion. Can […]
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Tehilla Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park


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