<p>Society has to say this is wrong, and the law has to punish those who do something like this. If not, would Susan Smith just have “accidentally” left her two boys in the sweltering South Carolina heat rather than push them into strapped car seats into a lake? Oops, my bad. Yes it is tragic for those who unintenionally do it (although I cannot fathom how that would happen), but to not charge them criminally would open up a whole can of worms for child killers. Why “shake your baby to death” when you can just leave them in a hot car and say oops. Why drown your kids, put them in the car to bake! NO, there has to be consequences for these actions, even “if” it was a mistake.</p>