5 year old boy struck and killed after forced out of car on busy highway for being 'unruly'.

[coti]

24. No, this is nothing like holding a kid's head underwater

as a punishment.

You think you have enough information for summary execution, apparently, based on taking a kid out of a car in the rain in a parking lot, "yadda yadda," dead kid in the road. What I've shown is that is not at all the case. Taking the kid of out the car in a parking lot, by itself, does not give proximate cause for criminal culpability if the kid then gets hit by a car. Getting rained on is fairly routine. Kids getting out of cars in parking lots is very routine. By itself, that information doesn't lead to the kind of culpability you want to assign this man. With just that information, you haven't even shown simple negligence related to the result, let alone anything criminal.

It sounds like you agree, though, that we need information about how the kid got in the road (which wasn't even necessarily negligence-- it could have even been intentional on the boyfriend's part, in which case you're talking 1st degree murder).

Until then, we shouldn't be filling in information for what we don't know.