<p>“Why “shake your baby to death” when you can just leave them in a hot car and say oops.”</p>
<p>When we say that the parents shouldn’t go to jail for an accident, that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be an investigation. There is ALWAYS an investigation following an untimely death. A parent telling a story that doesn’t hang together (like Susan Smith), or a parent with an abnormal emotional reaction to the death, is going to raise suspicion among the police. Those parents are going to end up charged with murder. With the parents described in the article, though, it’s undisputed that there was no intent to harm the child – prosecutors and police agree on that.</p>