According to relevant data, in recent years, there have been many tragedies across the country in which children were locked in school buses and private cars. According to media statistics, from 2006 to 2017 alone, there were at least 25 incidents of children being forgotten in cars in my country, resulting in more than 20 deaths.
Qin Xiyan, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of Hunan Qin Xiyan United Law Firm, said in an interview with the Procuratorate Daily on July 20, 2015 that the death of a child due to the school's negligence "is generally considered in judicial practice to be "Criminal negligence causing death"; if a parent as a guardian causes the death of a child due to negligence, the parent does not need to bear criminal responsibility. Because of this, it is urgent to improve the safety awareness of guardians.
He suggested that in addition to educating and strengthening the safety awareness of parents and guardians, the Law on the Protection of Minors can also be amended to add prohibitive clauses, such as adding "Parents should avoid leaving preschool children alone in the car." "Inside", "Minors under 12 years old should not be left at home alone and should ride in the back seat", etc. In terms of the protection of minors, prohibitive regulations such as "Parents shall not leave preschool children alone in the car" and "Minors under 12 years old shall not be left alone at home and must ride in the back seat" have been added to strengthen guardianship awareness of responsibility, safety and law to avoid the recurrence of tragedies.
Compared with China, U.S. law handles such cases more seriously. According to reports, in 2014, Seth Jackson, a man from Wichita, Kansas, watched the American TV series " "Game of Thrones", it wasn't until the child's character appeared in the play that the confused father remembered that his 10-month-old child had been forgotten in the car. When he rushed to the child, the child had died of heatstroke in a closed carriage with a temperature as high as 32 degrees. Currently, Seth is facing charges of first-degree murder because his negligence led to the loss of a child's fragile life. Only legal sanctions are waiting for him.