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I'm guessing that the murder charge either stems from some other evidence or history of abuse and neglect or reflects the outrage of the prosecutor and the community. If that's the case the charge will probably be downgraded before trial.
But there's really no explanation for sending two kids out to walk 10 miles in the snow in pajamas if you didn't expect that harm would come to them. Why didn't he call the mom to come get them? Or catch up with them after he got the truck out. If he wasn't drunk, drugged or mentally retarded, he's just plain evil.
I would have to know MORE I guess.
I would like to know about any "history of abuse" and such.
I wonder if he knew how far it was?
I do know that MY children NEVER have to worry about this happening to them, and it's a shame that some poor little children have idiots for parents
After the truck got caught in the snow, authorities allege Aragon let the children out to walk to their mother's house while he and another adult stayed behind to free the vehicle.
This is the part of the story that throws it off for me. There were TWO adults. One, or both, should have walked with the kids to the nearest home or business available. The mother, or other help, could have been called at that time. I wouldn't have let MY KIDS walk that far on a beautiful sunny day by themselves.
I'm with miasmommy in wondering if there is a history of abuse or neglect. I don't think the man set out to put his kids in harms way and being a complete idiot doesn't make him a murderer. At the end of the day though, he apparently shouldn't have had custody of kids in the first place.
This story is just plain awful. I do not know anything other than what I have read in that article. But I will tell you this.... the father should be charged with at the VERY LEAST negligent homicide. Murder by not giving a (insert name of brown substance that gets stuck to your shos angives off a foul odor). Okay.... he may have been stupid in sending the kids ahead, he may have been irresponsible for not driving on to pick up his kids when he got unstuck, but he is downright uncaring for not calling to make sure the kids arrived. There were so many options that he had... he CHOSE to send his kids into freezing conditions in their jamas for 10 miles. Yeah... I would call this evil. If a stranger were to pick up a hitchhiker, make them change into jamas and abandon them in these conditions where they had to go 10 miles to safety.... wouldn't we call that person evil? Sadistic? This guy did it to his OWN kids. Uncaring, irresponsible, stupidity.... none of these is a defense for sending two children out into the freezing weather, unprepared, underclothed, with no communication and no adult. Then to compund this crime, he just forgets about them... as if they were safe at their mother's home instead of wandering aimlessly through the snow.
and that poor little boy who is left to live with survivor's guilt and no father...
Well, the "no father" part can be repaired, just by NOT sending him to prison. There are about two million kids in the USA with a parent in prison. That averages out to almost one in every schoolroom. Nobody seems to give a crap about those innocent kids, except to point fingers at them of guilt by association. My wife's father was sent to prison when she was ten. She was in the car with him when he was arrested, and had to wait at the police station for her mother to come and get her. People do not realize what an emotional tragedy it is for kids to lose a parent that way. Somehow those children never seem to be called "victims" of a judicial system that smugly licks its lips every time it sends a dad to the big house.
Well, the "no father" part can be repaired, just by NOT sending him to prison.
That "man" (and I use the term loosely) is hardly a father. I hope he never has contact with that boy again.
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