The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”
The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death.
K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Yeah, my laymans understanding of manslaughter fits the bill. But laws are “funny”. And I want to agree with what you said about blow the whistle or quit. But I understand how hard that is for a lot of people. Also, it’s hard to blow the whistle on something everyone already knows is bad. If people didn’t have to work to survive (health insurance, rent, food…) it would be a lot easier to quit if you felt you couldn’t safely do the job. But the system was designed to make it hard for people to quit. So I have trouble blaming people for not being able to do it.