Realities of parenthood win out over Internet in gorilla death
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Joseph T. Deters, the prosecutor in Cincinnati, today provided the details the Internet didn't bother waiting for a week or so ago when a young boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at the zoo.
“She was being attentive to her children by all witness accounts,” Mr. Deters said at a news conference today announcing he won't be charging the parents. “And the 3-year-old just scampered off.”
She was trying to watch three other kids at the same time.
Take that, internet.
"I've never seen the attention given to a family endangering case as this," Deters said.
"If you don't believe a 3-year-old can scamper away that quickly, you've never had kids," Deters said. "They just do that."
The father wasn't with the mother and children at the zoo, he said.
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