Monday, June 27, 2005
 
Maybe He Should Have Looked in the Trunk
I should have sympathy for the father of three children who were found dead in a car trunk in New Jersey. However, he and the media are all too happy to blame the police: Dad: 'Maybe they should have looked in the trunk': Father of 1 of 3 boys found dead questions police methods:
    As authorities began investigating why police failed to search a car trunk where three missing boys were found dead, the father of one of the children said Sunday he could not understand how they died so close to home.

    Anibal Cruz, 38, said the family assumed that police looked in the trunk of the car that was parked just steps from where the boys were last seen playing.

    "That was the first place to look," Cruz said. "You can look through the windows and check inside. That is simple. Maybe they should have looked in the trunk."
I want to stay away from personally impugning the parenting skills required in this endeavor, since I wasn't there and I only get the understanding and facts of the situation as provided by the media.

I do wonder why it's necessary to fault the police for the children's deaths. If this explodes into a lawsuit against the police, then I will impugn the parents of the children. But not now, damn it. He lost three children and grieves, lashing out. Hopefully, he'll recognize that the police weren't at fault and to blame them at a time like this disservices them and his children's memory.

The media should take steps to keep him from looking bad, too, during this emotional time and not amplifying his comments into an indictment of sloppy police work.


- posted by Brian J. @ 12:10 PM
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