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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]meadowlander
(4,416 posts)Two eyes and common sense?
You look in the room before your child goes in there and say: "there's a piece of sculpture that looks expensive and isn't guarded maybe I shouldn't let my kid run around unsupervised in this room".
Seriously anything could have happened to this kid. He could have been kidnapped. If that was the case would we be saying "the community centre is at fault because nobody could have a reasonable expectation that if they let their kid run wild in public while they stood around chatting in another room something bad could happen to him or to someone else. It's everyone else's job to watch this person's kid like a hawk at all times"? Of course not.
Because *anywhere* in public is dangerous for little kids. That's why they have parents in the first place - who are supposed to apply common sense to when and where their kids need to be supervised.