Arrests - house fire that killed 6 children

[Nickijem]

My sympathy lies with the friends of those poor, poor children, the neighbours and the emergency services who did all they could. I was very suspicious of the poor acting shown by the parents of the children at the news conference. There was not one tear on either of their faces - I don't think anyone could be 'all cried out' so soon after the event (I cried for days when I lost my horse and could cry now if I started talking about it).
I do think it was a badly thought out plan but I can't believe they intentionally murdered their own children - well that's what I want to believe
RIP those poor kiddies.

 

[Ladydragon]

The weird thing is, after I watched the parents on the TV doing the police appeal, I commented to my office mate the next day that there was no way the mother at least, was genuinely crying. If I cry my face goes instantly bright red and puffy, my eyes almost disappear, I can't stop blowing my nose because it all gets totally congested (so a tissue lasts about 10 seconds) and frankly I look a sight and continue to do so for at least half an hour after I've stopped crying. The mother was dabbing her eyes and kept her face well hidden most of the time. I don't believe father was crying either. So todays news came as absolutely no surprise at all to be honest. As with someone earlier, I now suspect this was an attempt to get rehoused which went tragically wrong.

Dang... I hope you don't go around regularly trying to define just how a bereaved parent should display their grief/shock/devastation or what their skin colour/snot production/tissue use should be when they cry in the early days of a bereavement...

so, they have now been charged.
if it is true, i dont know how they could live with themselves.

Absolutely no idea... It's difficult enough making it through the day when you had nothing to do with the causation of death... Life is forever full of self analysis and questions - when you eventually reach the point of being able to function...

IF this couple did do something that unexpectedly resulted in the death of their children, I have mixed feelings... It it truly awful and homicide should not go unpunished... At the same time, I do feel sorry for them - the personal sentence would* last longer than anything determined by the judicial system or public opinion... As for remaining children and other family members - I've no idea how they will ever make emotional sense of it all...

A truly awful mess...


*With the concept that the death of the children was not deliberate - which would be counter productive to the suggestion of getting a bigger house... Again with the IF...