Yes. Yes, they are.

This time a child died.

I blame myself, really.  After all, I’ve tried to get the word out again and again and I guess I just didn’t make my point.

Good job mom and dad, I’m so glad you won’t face charges.   I bet if daddy had given the kid a loaded gun, and came back “after a few minutes to check on something” to find his son with bullet wounds this would be a different story.  Instead we get hilarious lines like “We are not seeing any criminal culpability on the part of either parent.”

When are people going to wake up and stop treating dog attacks on children like a natural disaster… there seems to be two consistent variables in this situation – putting a DOG around a CHILD.  How hard is it to figure out?

Child Endangerment is a criminal offense classified as the subjection of minor children to inappropriate or dangerous situations.    By not charging these morons we are affirming that having pit bulls (or any carnivorous large animal) around a child is appropriate and not dangerous at all.  Want to see how laughable our society’s treatment of animals is?  Here are a few actual offenses that WILL land you in criminal court for child endangerment:

drinking beer around a minor

smoking pot in front of your child

leaving an issue of playboy on the kitchen counter

telling your toddler to play with your pet pit bull   -oops! how’d that get in there… THAT one is perfectly reasonable!! sheesh, what was I thinking?!