10-30-2019, 09:45 PM
Yeah, your points are valid Mags and Rootilda.
Based on the story as it's being told now, I just wouldn't charge him with a crime if I was the prosecutor (unless the family/victims were pushing for it, which they're not).
If gramps lifted her up above his head preparing for her to touch the window, I could see how he lost hold of her when there turned out to be no barrier/window. But, it's not clear to me yet exactly how he was holding her.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how the details shake out. I could easily change my mind about the appropriateness of the negligent homicide charge if it turned out gramps was hammered, or the family started screaming about a lawsuit while still on the ship and raised suspicions, or gramps himself opened the window or ignored warning signs and lied about it...
As of yet, nothing like that has been put forward.
Based on the story as it's being told now, I just wouldn't charge him with a crime if I was the prosecutor (unless the family/victims were pushing for it, which they're not).
If gramps lifted her up above his head preparing for her to touch the window, I could see how he lost hold of her when there turned out to be no barrier/window. But, it's not clear to me yet exactly how he was holding her.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how the details shake out. I could easily change my mind about the appropriateness of the negligent homicide charge if it turned out gramps was hammered, or the family started screaming about a lawsuit while still on the ship and raised suspicions, or gramps himself opened the window or ignored warning signs and lied about it...
As of yet, nothing like that has been put forward.