Something like this occurred to Dominican kids back in the middle 90's in the area I grew up in.

The father and mother should be locked up for the rest of the lives, period!

The father and mother (if they are in DR legally) should be let loose in a couple of months. This isn't really a crime by DR's laws.

TRULY SAD............

Why is it always the innocent Children are the ones who pay for Parents IRRESPONSIBILITY / STUPIDITY....all for the sake of a New years party / celebration.

I say arrest the Parents for neglect / Child endangerment / 5 counts of involuntary manslaughter and let them party in a Dominican Jail for life.

But then again so much for the Dominican Justice system, which is the real cry for Dominican
injustice.

Life's nothing but a party.

GOD SAVE THE DR FROM OURSELVES.

riosm,

I take off my hat to you SIR!

irresponsible parents, what a shame!.

This kind of crime is not that severely penalized. They will probably keep roaming around, having more kids to burn them.

I think I need to disagree with most of you.......I don't think it was stupid, it was just a TRAGIC thing.

These people don't have $$, they live stressful lives, they didn't love their children any less than any of us here in this forum. They probably didn't have anybody to watch the kids for them. They probably had an oil lamp, because they couldn't afford electricity........

Or, this was planned. I hope not.

Mariposa

I hope you didn't smoke your morning pot before you posted this.

This is a CRIME Period

Why would any parent let his kids locked up and unattended at night... where they hell were they, pulling an allnighter?

This what really pisses me off, the freaking hypocrisy "oh this people are poor, they are allowed to technically burn their children while they are at God knows where doin' God knows what?"

B.S. you are justifying these people because they are haitians, i know your trajectory in the DT, and your all-pro-haitian rhetoric.

They will have their conscience to hunt them for the rest of their irresponsible and ignorant lives.

this a tragedy, i think their parents should be responsible and not selfish, you do not leave children home alone an expect no casualties.

Order in court:

We find the defenants not guilty on all counts,
you are free to go back to haiti, or stay here and have more kids.
This session is adjourned.

"They didn't love their children any less than any of us here in this forum."

"Or this was planned."

Well, if they didn't love their children any less than any of us here in this forum, why would they plan to burn their kids. Even if they did love their kids less than any of us in this forum, just who burns their house??!! :S

Wow, Mr. Plantain, feeling a little feisty, eh? Put yourself in the parents' shoes and live their life for five to ten years, then come back and post something more mature....

It's none of your or our business why they did what they did. Again, go live their lives for a few years. You will change your rhetoric quickly, I'll guarantee you that.

You are right about one thing, this will haunt them forever. Again, a tragedy, nothing more and nothing less.

" Haitians are known for there savage & irresponsible way of living, electricity, and their life conditons is not a good excuse for letting their children burn to death in the house, Haitians tend to have a more miserable feeling about their lifes. stop making cheap excuses."

According to what I am reading here the Dominicans are many more times well off than we Haitians. However, according to what this article says:

"Missing Dominican boatpeople doing forced labor in Cuba"

Santo Domingo.– A total of 96 illegal Dominican boatpeople who set out on November 13, 2008, for Puerto Rico, are being forced to work in sugarcane plantations in Cuba, family members said.

You don't worth more than us in the foreigner's eyes. And if there is any low life human being in this hemisphere, he/she may as well be a dominican. You claim to be a first world country while in reality you are as poor as us in a certain fashion. LOL LOL LOL LOL

The haitian "CHUPACABRAS" resurfaced!

Leaving children unattended is never OK and much less to attend a party.
One child was only 2 1/2 months old. These are defenseless babies! To lock them up like animals is another crime. The parents will undoubetly suffer the loss, even though they should be steralized so that they cannot repeat this scenario again.

We need a license to drive, fly, practice medicine and law but to create a human life we only need to be horny and irresponsable. Animals have better sense than that.

Easyrider,
THANK YOU FOR THE COMMON SENSE, BACK TO EARTH AND BACK TO REALITY VIEW OF THIS MADNESS WAY OF LOGIC THINKING.......I AGREE 100% LIKE MANY.

BUTTERFLY,
As an RESPONSIBLE Parent myself like billions world wide the thought of a living a 2 1/2 in a locked room while one party hardy is insane, criminal and down right UN-HUMAN in it self.
Besides Madam Butterfly maybe you should of volunteered to baby sit, you know in your cocoon way of thinking.

Dios mio ! I hope NO ONE PUTS THERE PARENTING SKILLS IN THOSE SHOES OF AN EXCUSE.

God save us all from a world gone mad.

ateo1992 and the likes in here, I was about to say I feel sorry for you, but no way.

You are so filled with crap and hatered my wish is you are not too many with the same mind, because if you are DR will NEVER progress. Moreover I hope you are not able to have children because you will feed them with the same hatered.

ScandiViking, I don't regret what i said because facts are facts, and why don't you go complain about all the racism going on in your homeland Scandinavia, where as in the special case of Sweden, muslims are like incests trying to rip apart the country with there savage way of living andreligious manipulation. So the same is happening in our country but in this case is a at a cultural and economical effect, my hatred is not for the individual hiaitian but for the broad immigration that its coming in huge waves, and we must stop it , anger is release when i express my feeling in those matters. mind your own f***** business!...

Neglect which is child abuse is what these parents did by leaving their children home alone.
If that would of happened here which it has, the parents would be facing manslaughter charges!
Regardless of the parents background or social status this was something preventable and it happened because the parents put themselves first before the safety of their children!

What a sad way to start the year! Hope they pay for what they done in this life and the next!
May God take mercy on the poor children souls!

Please dont turn this into a dominican vs haitian thing...this is a human tragedy! :(
Hope people learn from this! Our children are our only priceless possesions!!

This is a sad and tragic story by all measures.

Innocent lives who never got to enjoy much of the things we take for granted and should be much thankful for.

In this season of giving, forgiveness, we should find it rather appalling that their abrupt demise should be twisted to promote our agendas.

May God welcome these innocent lives into his paradise, reward them with everything they lacked in our present hell.

There are obviously some in this forum for whom we must say a prayer tonight, and I clearly do not refer to the deceased.

Let us hope that we will all have a better year and learn to get along better with one another.

Happy New Year Dr. Strangelove, health and wealth to you and your family my brother!

I will take your advice and light a candle for Martha Stewart!

Velocidad,

My friend, SLOW DOWN, not so fast:


The DR is a member nation of the United Nations and thereby a de facto ratifier of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often referred to as CRC or UNCRC, is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. Nations that ratify this international convention are bound to it by international law.'

So it is not that we are judging DR by US standards but rather by international standards and law they have committed to obey! Our leaders must learn that signing these international conventions means a little bit more than a nice photo op for the untutored masses back at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child

Yes, but according to the news, there was one of the children that didn't belong to the family, therefore, the offending parent should be judged because of the irreparable loss he has brought to another family.

Glomarexlpoyer,
Thank you, always great input.

Velocidad,
"No broken Dominican laws" thanks for enlighten us on facts, one has to ask why not ?

Imejia,
Thank you. Children are not owned there a gift from GOD to raise in GODS way, I'll add.
"Responsible parents raise responsible Children who in turn become responsible Parents them selves".

All take care.

So let me get this straight....we are inconciderate and illogical for thinking the parents should be punished for the neglect that caused their children's death? What responsible and caring parent leaves a 6 year old in charge of his/her preschooler siblings to go party??

Maybe I was too sheltered growing up in the DR or just lucky enough that as a child I was never left to my own devices. My mom was a single mom and had to work but I was always under the supervision of an adult.

I dont think that they meant any harm to the children when they made their selfish decision but please don't make excuses for them either!! This was preventable, and the parents will now have to live with this guilt forever!!

Sad tragedy that could have been prevented.

First of all, I grew up in DR in a barrio, never saw or heard of any, absolutely any children being left home along so the parents and more so A MOTHER have a night out, grandparents or friends always did the baby sitting.
Leaving the kids home along specially a 2 1/3 months baby and 4 years old toddler! Is inexcusable!

It is obvious the parent wanted the kids dead. If you ask a psychologist about it, that is what they will deduce, the parents wanted the kids dead.

Any ways, these two irresponsible Haitians parents will probably have another twelve kids in the next 5 years.

Awwwww those poor babies!!! And why the hell would you leave kids that arent even over the age of 10 yet home by themselves just so you can party!!! HELL TO THE N-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now those children can't grow up anymore. And there are about 1,000,000 haitians in dr, yeah that aint right. Yall is takin up there territory.Hopefully those parents are put to jail for life and enabled to have kids ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ateo: F*ck Y*u

You are prosecuting those poor people according to the Westenized Roman Code of Justice. What you don't know is the cultural behaviour behind that freaky accident. In Haiti, it is normal for parents to leave their children unatended and go about their things. They simply leave the flock under the of the older's supervision.

What has happened here is the common behaviour of a man to whom the kids doesn't belong to. In fact, with us Haitians and culturally, if you are a "pitit deyò"(out of the wedlock or from an "off the home woman" you're not cared for the same way as if you were a "pitit kay" (the opposite of a pitit deyò).
If there is a real justice system in the Dominican Republic, it should teach that bastard the art of family caring whenever it is your own offspring of not. In ayiti even though people would have condamned it the same way it is done here, however, they would have soon forgotten it as a freak accident.

ALL PLEASE LET'S SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT TOWARDS EACH OTHER......

IF ANYTHING EMOTIONS RUNNING REAL HIGH.................

Just goes to show when innocent Children are HURT, ABUSED and KILLED it does not matter what Color, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality or Gender.

SEE ALL HAVE SHOWN THEIR HIDDEN HUMAN EMOTIONAL ASPECT SO MUCH / OFTEN IGNORED ! WHEN IT COMES TO CHILDREN ALL WILL DEFEND.

Josean

Happy New Year to you and your family as well.

Thank you for kind comments.

riosm,

Thank you for kind comments.

Glomarexplorer,
WHY THANK YOU SIR.
In the end we are just Humans.
ALL take care.

to isywiw, other hanbag #14 for $168.00? I didn't know that in the carnaval (los diablos cajuelos) wear hang bag, jajajaja