Gorilla killed

[Catholic_Lady]

No, believing in god makes one delusional, inattentiveness with a three year old child around caged animals, makes her a douche.

Any bets she was texting?

If she had another child, she could easily have had to take her eyes off one to deal with the other. I understand there was a hole the child got through. There shouldn't have been a hole. If zoos depended on parents to keep kids out of enclosures, kids getting into them would be a weekly occurrence.

It wasn't a hole. The fence was made up of 4 or so horizontal bars. The kid crawled in between the bars after getting through the bushes. 

There needs to be a balance, of course. The enclosure was deemed safe by the safety standards used for zoos, and had been there for decades with no problem. There were warning signs. At some point it does become the parent's responsibility. 

Sounds like a really bratty kid, and a mom who had a moment of bad judgement. It wasn't the zoo's fault, but I don't think we should be condemning the mother either. As I said, in the perfect world, she wouldn't have gotten distracted for just long enough for this to happen. But people aren't perfect and accidents happen. I think watching her kid almost get squished by a gorilla for 10 minutes was punishment enough. I imagine she learned her lesson, and I will not be joining in the wagon of shaming her.