Sex not cause of most hot car deaths
A recent letter-writer (“Change of venue a smart move,” May 6) opines that sex addiction affects memory and judgment and “we need to know whether whether a child died because of his parent’s sex addiction, or a desire to murder his own child.”
Given the fact that there have been 645 children killed by heatstroke after being left in hot cars since 1998, the United States must have a lot of child murderers and/or sex addicts. Or, perhaps, horrendous, unthinkable, accidents simply happen on occasion? Incidents that could constitute criminal negligence but not an intentional act?
I won’t even go into the question of why a web developer, with knowledge of how texts and computer records are stored and accessible to authorities, would be leaving a trail of this type of texts at the time his son was dying.
TIM HEWETT, TUCKER
Change the way we treat convicts
As the mother of an “inmate, convict, felon” in Georgia, you can bet I agree with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch regarding the language we use to keep incarcerated and returning citizens in the “emotional cage.” My son’s story underscores the crisis our country is in. He is a “violent offender,” and he will be released. He is serving a 15-year sentence for a fight at a frat party. No weapon, no priors, nothing stolen.
If Mr. Mathis is all for giving people a second chance and he agrees that violent criminals are being released,then he should agree that we all need to change the way we think, speak and deal with mass incarceration. It’s not being wimpy; it’s civic responsible — it’s being aware of the desperate needs of a person who has been locked up in a system that is just like it was in the ’70s.
KATE BOCCIA, ALPHARETTA
