I was more than a little irritated this week when a grand jury decided not to indict a Medina man for the death of his son after leaving the kid to die in a hot car. Perhaps more irritating is the fact that I saw the Medina County Prosecutor, Dean Holman, get on TV and say that the grand jury made the right decision as he didn't think there was much of a case for prosecution.
Anywhere else in the world I don't think I'd care, but here it illustrates a giant double standard. This is the same prosecutor who relentlessly went after Audrey Iacona, a teenager who did major jail time after being convicted for involuntary manslaughter when she gave birth to a child that may or may not have been still born. At the time, she knew she was pregnant but wasn't showing. Even though there was no proof that the baby was born alive and it wasn't a miscarriage, she got eight years. The sentance was later over turned but she still did one year.
This guy who left his baby in the car for two hours didn't have that question. His son was most certainly a living breathing human, and Holman says it would be a hard case to prosecute? Is this guy a fucking crack baby?
But that's the way things go in Medina. A teenager makes a stupid mistake and gets pregnant, gives birth (or miscarries) to a dead kid, and everyone wants to lock her up. A so-called responsible adult leaves his kid to die in a hot car and it's OK. Audrey is an example of "not in my town" while this asshole just had an unfortunate accident. What a fucking joke.
Holman should be voted out of office for being a moron.