Court won't cut claims in wrongful death case at Pittsburgh zoo

[steve2470]

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/court-wont-cut-claims-in-wrongful-death-case-at-pittsburgh-zoo-698298/

Minutes before a 2-year-old boy was killed at the African painted dogs exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium last year, he had been inside the monkey house.

An attorney representing the parents of Maddox Derkosh said Tuesday that the little boy had an interaction with a monkey there, in which he placed his hands up on the glass, and the animal approached the glass from the other side and put its hands up against the boy's.

That, attorney Robert Mongeluzzi said, is likely the reason why Maddox lurched out of his mother's arms and through an opening in the display of the African painted dogs on Nov. 4.

"She did not take her son and put him on the railing and stand him there," Mr. Mongeluzzi said. "She was picking him up when he lurched forward and fell from her grasp.

[kcr]

1. Picking him up to do what?

Stand him up on the railing so he could see the painted dogs. I know he's doing his job, but that's pretty weak. I remember that awful tragedy when it first hit the news. IT was clearly the parent's fault.