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Yet ANOTHER reason to be careful who we reproduce with, and why FDS is so important. What a horrible father. 😡
Aug. 14, 2024, 4:13 PM EDT
The father of two toddlers thrown from a Jeep in a highway crash is likely to face criminal charges, officials said Wednesday.
The accident occurred on Sunday on the I-10 East Freeway, on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez described the incident on X as “a two-car crash where one of the cars flipped over several times causing ejection.”
Among those ejected from the overturned vehicle were a four-year-old and a one-year-old, the sheriff's office said. Video showed the two toddlers, dressed only in diapers, stranded on the highway before being rescued.
An investigation revealed that neither child was in a car seat at the time of the crash.
"They were just sitting in the back of the vehicle, not strapped to anything," said Deputy Thomas Gilliland of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Both children are being treated at the hospital and remain in “serious but stable condition,” said the sheriff’s office. Their father, the driver, was treated for minor injuries and released.
Texas state law requires that children under the age of 8 be secured in a child safety seat. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, child safety seats can reduce the risk of fatal injury by 54% for toddlers ages one to four. In 2022, 39% of children killed in traffic crashes were not properly restrained.
Although no charges have been filed yet, the sheriff's office confirmed that the case remains under investigation and indicated that charges against the father "will likely be filed soon."
And this is the very reason that so many women are afraid to leave their children's father. This is what you read in the mom forums like 'raising a grown man' and 'breaking mom.' if they split up with him then that automatically means that he's going to get 50% custody and they don't trust this man alone with their child. There's mom's on there who have already reported that he gave the baby cough medicine which you're not supposed to give to a child because it can result in their death. Or that he was driving or driving around with the baby without a car seat. Unfortunately males bad parenting is what keeps women trapped with males, because they can't figure out how are they going to get sole custody, because it's very very difficult for a woman to get sole custody. All these fathers rights groups are all over the place demanding that the father get his 50% custody if not full custody.
There's also the legal issues with child endangerment and in Texas it's not lenient it's possible their negligence could affect you too.
This is horrible.