CORINTH, Maine — The parents of a boy who died when the travel camper he was left sleeping in was consumed by fire on Friday will not be charged in connection with his death, state authorities have decided.
Christian Rand, 7, died in his bed as a result of smoke inhalation, Mark Belserene, administrator of the state medical examiner’s office, said Monday afternoon, calling the death “tragic.”
“After consulting with the district attorney’s office, investigators say no charges will be filed against the parents,” Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Monday in a news release.
Fire investigators were unable to determine the cause of the blaze that ripped through the camper, which was parked just feet from the home of Christian’s grandparents. The fire was discovered about 9:35 a.m. Friday by the boy’s grandmother Gayle Richards.
“I opened the door expecting to see Christian and saw the fire,” she said Sunday. “I went out to the camper and I was screaming, [but] it was too late.”
Amanda Rand is Richards’ daughter and Christian’s mother. Amanda, her husband, Nicholas, and their two sons lived in the Richards home and used the camper only as a bedroom, the grandmother said.
A candlelight vigil was held Sunday night at the Corinth United Methodist Church for the boy.
The amount of damage to the camper, which was heated by a portable radiant heater connected by extension cords to Clyde and Gayle Richards’ nearby home, made determining the cause of the fire impossible.
“The State Fire Marshal’s Office said the cause of Friday’s fatal fire in Corinth cannot be determined due to the extensive damage to the camper trailer,” McCausland said.
The boy’s body was taken to Augusta for an autopsy, which was completed Monday afternoon, Belserene said.
Why is it that we cannot just express the appropriate grief for this tragic situation? Why does this loss need to be made a lesson…we don’t know what happened and we will never know. There is not one ounce of judgement that we can pass that these parents have not already thought of. We need to mourn with them…..not use them as a lesson.
No. It needs to be a lesson so it does not happen again. It is our responsibility as adults to care for all children. This little boy was entitled to supervision and a safe place to sleep.
I agree. There is nothing wrong with reflection while feeling sadness. This takes nothing away from the grief the parents are entitled too. If it serves as a warning to someone else who does not have to go through the same thing in the future, it’s a lesson well worth learning.
Indeed self reflection and sadness are appropriate. But out of respect, maybe right now is not the time to publicly hop on one’s soapbox about it.
I would argue that there is no better time for reflection than when the issue is so public and brought to the forefront of everyone mind. A forum like this allows for people to have a conversation about it. Some people may be jumping on the “soapbox,” but that’s the unfortunate reality of having an issue that arouses thought…not all insights will be pretty.
And I would argue that the BDN uses poor judgement when it allows people an opportunity to judge publicly on stories involving tragic events so shortly after they happen. I don’t need others to tell me, ” SEE – don’t run an extension cord to a heating unit!” I gathered that on my own, thank you. And the victims don’t need to re-learn it either. They will be re-living it for the rest of their lives.
To be frank, the victims do not have to read these forums, and silencing a conversation that obviously has important subject matter would seem a little unreasonable at best. It’s my expectation that these people would probably be spending more time grieving and not reading a public forum. I believe this is part of a larger problem with have in this country wherein a few people’s manufactured outrage seems to silence healthy debate, and it’s very unproductive in my estimation. I understand that you or other might have an objection to having the conversation, but I would then wonder why you feel the need to take part in the conversation that you have an objection to? I’m just not sure what purpose you’re trying to serve outside of creating some sort of unwarranted rage on a topic that some people find interesting and helpful. If you think that not running an extension cord to a heating unit is somehow an obvious takeaway, then you have to wonder why it may have played a role in the death of this poor young boy. Point is, conversation provokes an awareness and hopefully change, and it’s not your right to silence that.
I have written letters to the editor about this issue around online postings and comments after a reported tragedy. I have signed my real name to that. But maybe you’re right. Maybe the rights of free speech around online sharing outweigh the careless words of the public. Yes, I do have a problem with social thoughtlessness. I rarely comment or read posts anymore. But sometimes I like debating with reasonable people. The “unwarranted rage” you speak of is far from the truth. I come from a place of sympathy and real disturbance by some of the idiotic comments some folks so carelessly post. It’s not my right to silence that, but hopefully other online papers will follow the lead of the LSJ and require that people use their real name when posting. Clean it up a bit, hmm?
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In fairness, a posh apartment or house can burn, but may not have burned as fast or been subject too a similar heating system. I think we can all agree it’s not optimal, and I’m sure it wasn’t their first choice either. That’s a different conversation and maybe goes a little too political for this forum.
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tragic accident that could not have been foreseen? Number 1-don’t leave a young child alone. this is so basic that I think most 5 year old children understand it. Parents should use some common sense. Unfortunately, in this case a young child paid the price.
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Yes, and this may have been the only heat source in the camper. It sounds like their situation was not good, however, it looks like they love their family very much.
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I would never consider a camper, in the winter time in Maine, a SAFE place for MY seven year old child to sleep unattended while sick. I am appalled that no charges are being made — ever heard of “child neglect?” I get that they lost their child and nothing can ever bring him back, but people must practice common sense. If the camper was only being used as a bedroom then why wasnt the child left inside the house, where its warm, and where he could have been attended?
If it was a bedroom the parents should have been in it not the kids. The whole thing doesnt make ANY sense! If I were in desperate enough a situation to have a camper as one of my families bedrooms it would be mine before it would ever, ever, ever be any of my kids.
These parents broke no laws. Get an education.
at the very least they neglected the child, failed to provide a safe place for him and left him alone. Even if nothing had happened, being left alone can be frightening for a young child, especially if he woke up and discovered he was alone.
No charges were filed because they broke no laws. You clearly do not understand the legal system. Let it go. Even if they did break some law which they didn’t, do you really think some jail time would make anyones life better. C’mon, have some sympathy. I hope nothing like this ever happens to you and your loved ones. Oh thats right, accidents don’t happen to perfect people. Please.
They were all sleeping in the camper, not just the children.
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Thank you. I agree 100%.
you people who have all these crude comments, apparantly have never fallen on hard times and have all kinds of money and never have been in a hard situation like these people were because if you had you would not be passing judgement on these people so easily im a firm believer in god and that evcerything happens for a reason and that god had something much better planned for this little boy, so please keep your rude comments to yourself, someday you might be faced with a tradgedy in your family and you sure as heck wouldnt want people coming on here and making all these mean comments about you or your family no matter what the situation might be
I have to disagree, a camper made for summer recreation is not a safe place to be sleeping in during the winter in Maine. It was never intended to provide housing in the winter.
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He was being cared for by a responsible adult, he grandmother…..what happened was a freak accident……
He was alone.
He was not alone! He was in the same yard as his grandparents house, with an adult home. Do you seriously think that we need to watch every moment of an 8 year old’s life? How is it different than him being in the back yard, or in hos room, or biking around? Accidents happen. The grandmother knew he was out there.
“Do you seriously think that we need to watch every moment of an 8 year old’s life?”
Yes… I would not pull out of my driveway knowing that my child that age was sick and no adult was present in the home. I’m sorry, that’s maybe just me.
Sick children need someone in the actual home with them or need to go into their sitter’s home, in my opinion. Sharing a yard is not enough. This accident proves that anything can happen. I have a very responsible 8 year old, but point blank I would not leave home without an adult in the house with him.
What happened is horrible. People make mistakes and this boy paid the ultimate price for whatever happened inside that camper. I’m sure his parents and grandmother regret this deeply. I am so very sorry for their loss, and the what if’s don’t matter, but I think the ultimate message should be, this may have been prevented. We don’t know what happened in the camper for certain, we can only speculate, but maybe if an adult had been there, it could have had a happier ending.
Do you check the mail without taking your kids with you? Or go in another room?
Kristen mowry, do you have children?
Why, yes I do, and they are not in my line of vision 100% of the time…no one can say their kids are. I am not saying to be neglectful but there are times that kids are out of our sight…his grandmother was not that far from where he was….He was being cared for.
Unless she was in the camper with him while he slept, or she was sitting outside the camper he was not being cared for. I believe she was in the house, where she couldn’t see him or hear him. It’s tragic and I won’t second guess the authorities not pressing charges, but it’s a lesson to us all.
Do you sit in your kids room when they sleep at night? Do you ride the bus with them to school to make sure they are safe? Are you outside with them every time they are playing outside? Are you ever in another room when they are not?
I don’t leave them in the house next door alone and consider that “watching” them.
HE WAS LEFT ALONE IN A CAMPER WITH HEATERS GOING…NOT IN THE NEXT ROOM SLEEPING…THINK ABOUT IT, YA I WOULD SAY YOU KNEW THEM. SAME MENTALITY.
I don’t understand why charges aren’t being pressed and considering some of the comments here, it sounds like others don’t understand what these parents did that was wrong. That is very upsetting to me.
how in the heck the child is being cared for when the caretaker is “not that far from the child” is beyond me. Maybe we can say if a street is 1/4 of a mile long and 1 adult is home for the day that all the kids in the 1/4 mile stretch are safe. If this was such a great arrangement, why is the child dead?
sounds like you know them….and that means your sticking up for them….face it they messed up depending on a grandmother to watch her grandchild who was not in her sight until the camper went up in flames! Im a grandmother and let me tell you they never would be aloud to sleep in a camper with gas heaters going.
obviously this child needed some TLC and someone keeping watch over him. Why wasn’t he brought into the grandparent’s home instead of being left alone in a summer camper in a Maine winter?
Let me ask you….would you leave your seven year old in the same yard asleep with gas heaters going in the camper? How can a grandmother see gas fumes from her house or her yard?
According the the articles, they were not “gas” heaters, they were electric.
He grandmother was steps away…….are your children ALWAYS 100% of the time in your line of vision?
most adults don’t leave children in a dangerous situation to start with.
Thank you! As I have posted already, this child was probably CLOSER to his grandmother than most kids are when they are in their own home, with their parents, in their own bedrooms.
THING IS, IF YOUR HOUSE GOES UP IN FLAMES YOUR RIGHT THERE TO GET THEM OUT….GRAM COULD HAVE BEEN BUSY WITH SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE AND SHE DID NOT SEE THE FLAMES COMING OUT OF THE CAMPER….AND BY THE WAY WILL BURN LESS THEM 5 MINUTES.
OH, NOW IT WENT FROM SAME YARD TO STEPS AWAY
Being in another building on the same property is like being in two different houses.
Stepping out into your yard for a brief moment is nowhere near being in an entirely separate building and expecting to give quality care. Particularly if a child is ill.
#1-most people would understand that this was not a safe arrangement for the child. He was cared for be a responsible adult???-where was she when everything blew up? Obviously, not much she or any1 could do at that point because it was a dangerous situation waiting to happen. This was not a “freak accident,” it was an accident waiting to happen.
everyday we are all faced with challenges which are opportunities for learning lessons and a chance for growth. If a lesson isn’t learned from this then this poor child will have died in vain. some of the lessons are young children should never be left alone, summer campers are not meant to be lived in in Maine winters & it is dangerous to heat this camper in the manner it was heated.
I am sure being “charged” is the last thing on their minds. They are experiencing punishment more severe then anyone in prison and unrightfully so.
Young children should not be left home alone, unattended. The boy did not deserve to die but he should never have been left alone. Ever. How tragic for him.
I AGREE
I also agree—-I have never left a child of mine alone in a house, or whatever,and they are now all adults—I just don’t understand the concept of doing that—-This has to be the most horrible thing that life can hand to anyone!
Children should never be left alone anywhere, I won’t even leave my child who is 10 in the vehicle to go into a convenience store.
How far away is your child’s bedroom? What is separating you from your child (let me guess, if typical home construction, a couple of 2/4 walls, at least). The camper was 5 feet from the house where the grandmother was. Is you child EVER within more than 5 feet of you? If so, god forbid anything like this EVER happen to your child. One thing is for sure, I will have compassion for you and realize that accidents happen.
Would you be able to hear a sick child that was staying outside in a camper if he needed you for something? Would you be able to hear a child holler for you if they were in a room within the house? To me that is the difference, not being within earshot of a sick child isn’t really a good thing — many things can happen when a child is sick. There’s no way you can compare being within the same walls to being in a camper (that by the way looks like it was stuck in the woods a bit.)
Do you go to school with your child too?
No my wife drops off our child and watches her go into the school. The school is a locked campus like most and she is completely safe there. I have no doubt that our school is safer than most homes. Whether it be fire, flood, predators or bullying, schools are safe.
My point was in the response was to say that no young child should be left unattended outside the home. We’re not talking about a 12 year old or even a 10 year old. This is a tragic accident that represents the times some people are living in. Had the child been under adult supervision this may never have happened. My heart goes out to the mother and father.
Schools are safe..? ????? OK, evidently you don’t read the paper everyday then, cause a child took a gun into the school, and shot himself in the face. – Kid’s have killed themselves because of being bullied by peers, Teachers and such on charges of sexual abuse and conduct on their students, and even more.
A previous article stated that the camper was 10 steps from the house.
The bedrooms in my home are all on the same floor, but there are a lot more than 10 steps between my bed and the beds of my children.
You, Nicole, need to climb down off your high horse and have some compassion for this family. Criticizing serves NO purpose here. Don’t you think this family has suffered enough? Don’t you think that if they could go back to that fateful day they wouldn’t gladly give their lives to bring back their son? They will live with this for the rest of their lives, you however, will go on living your perfect life where you have never made decisions that you may have regretted. Carry on………..
To me it is logical not to leave a child this age home alone in the condition he was in (sick) in a camper in the winter in Maine where no other adult is in the same building. Being down the hallway from a child is a lot different; heck, even a different season or not being ill are both factors that change this for me.
A tragedy is a tragedy and maybe NONE of this could have been prevented by someone being in the same home as him but I would like to know why anyone can’t see that you can both feel sorry for the loss of a child and at the same time point out that these things could be preventable. I never said I was perfect, that I never made poor choices as a parent that could have gone in either direction, and that I never step away from my children for a second. What I did say was that he shouldn’t have been left alone. I would feel this way regardless of the outcome; the unfortunate thing is, we don’t hear about this until we know of the outcome.
Hey Nicole, I agree with you completely. I’m paranoid about my child being left alone, and I’m a little stunned by people who think this arrangement was kosher. I’m not saying that the parents had ill-intentions by any means, but I also think it’s ok to recognize the lack of safety in the situation while understanding that a loss occured. In my mind there is a lesson to be learned here, and sadly I believe the people that probably need the lesson the most will take the least away from it. Unfortunately, those people who are more concerned with defending what I would deem dagerous circumstances, are probably guilty of it themselves and most likely will not change. I think we all make poor choices as a parent sometimes, but to not learn from this tragedy would be an error in my judgement.
For those of you who believe that leaving your child to check the mail momentarily, or having them sleeping in the next bedroom is no better than this situation, your wrong and if you continue to defend it then you’re fools. If you’re inside the same house, you smell the smoke, hear the sounds, and have a jump start on reacting to tragedy. When you’re in a separate building your ability to react is certainly stunted, and it is not an optimal situation.
That beind said, I’m sure this was the parents doing the best they could, and it’s hard to blame people in hard times for doing what they can to keep their children safe and warm. Unfortunately in this case, it didn’t have a happy ending.
The child was not left alone, as the grandmother was 5 feet away . Heck, accidents do happen, and in this case is was a very sad ending.. But you, Nicole, need to think before you post. My own kid’s bedrooms ( when they lived in my house), were over 20 feet away from mine, and anything could have happened. After reading this, it made me realize how lucky we were and still are.
Thoughts and prayers for the family and friends.
Very sad, very sad indeed. My condolences to his family and classmates and friends…
Another lesson to be learned from this is for everyone to wait until the whole story is out before posting things on these very public forums.
just saying!
Very well said, just saying.
there is no words that can be said, nor words that can be heard that would make this any easier… i cant even imagine having this nightmare become a real life horror… my thoughts and prayers for all family, friends, and anyone else affected by this tragedy… may this child rest in eternal peace, may the family and friends find comfort and closure in their time of need.
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Posters, a child is GONE! Think about that for a moment. A little boy DIED and his parents must live with this for the rest of their lives. You can go to the next stoty and move on to complain about something else (hey, Ill see you there) but this pain they must endure is something none of us would wish on our worst enemy and will sadly last them the rest of their lives.
You want to go upgrade your smoke detectors, take the gas cans out of the garage, take combustables out of the cellar, have your house rewired to new code, check the batteries in the heat and smoke detectors, buy a carbon monoxide alarm, throw every extension cord you have in the trash, never light a candle or a woodstove, keep your kids from buring ants with a magnifying glass, put up a grounded lighting rod and so much more that is your business and your alone.
This tragedy hits close to home, real close, and any responsible parent that knows about this tragedy probably did a self assesment check of their own digs. This is no place to cast stones or make insinuations, it just shows your inner hate and ignorance.
Have some class.
Emotions run high when a child is involved. Speaking for myself, it is easier to determine how we could have prevented this, and help raise some kind of awareness, than it is to say sorry and pretend there is no lesson. A kindly worded and respectful comment can go a long way in keeping others from making the choices that end in horrible tragedies such as this. Believe it or not, some people do not read this and put the story together into changing their own choices. None of us ever thinks that “just this one time” will be us. Better to say something than see this headline again. One loss is enough.
Tragic events occur everyday in Maine…this certainly is the case with Christian Rand and his family. The Ayla Reynolds case is another example of things gone wrong, accidentally or negligently. Condolences to the family members.
“After consulting with the district attorney’s office, investigators say no charges will be filed against the parents .” Does this mean that charges might have been pending? Mama Rand looks like she’s a smoker in the last BDN photo. Could a careless cigarette been involved?
There are always lessons to be learned. One can express both grief and opinion. This is a comments forum…not an Obituary Guest Book.
Well said!
Very tragic. A young boy is dead. His parents grieve his loss.
Thankfully I never had to leave my child alone at that age.
My heart goes out to all of Christian’s family and friends.
Agreed. This does need to be a lessoned learned as camping season will soon be on us. I’ve seen many people hook up all sorts of heating elements to heat tents and campers. Once asleep an entire family could go up in minutes, as demonstrated here. Sad.
I know if this happened to my son or very close family member this would be the last place I would be. Don’t tell me I don’t know, because I do know. During times of unbearable grief, one doesn’t turn on the news, open a newspaper or read these blogs. We don’t need to be burdened with anything negative. We can’t function, just showering and doing the necessities is exhausting.
The whole family has been punished enough with the death of this boy.
I just can’t imagine the pain this couple must feel, the guilt they couldn’t provide proper shelter for their family, the guilt for this child’s death, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt, they don’t need prison, no family anywhere should have to live like this, this is where “HABITAT FOR HUMANITY” comes in. Bless this family & RIP lil one :(
How old should a child be before hey are left alone. I believe in Maine it could be 11yr.
pretty sure it is 13
Actually there is no age limit. It is expected that PARENTS not the state are the best judge of this. There are only seven States in the US where “minimum ages” for being left alone are specified.
I think in the winter, i wouldn’t want to leave them alone until they were a little older, because we burn wood and i don’t feel safe with them putting wood in the fire. In the summer i’d feel more safe.
Lots of us are using space heaters to heat a room.
right lots of us are but my gets unplugged when i am not there to supervise it, and i wouldnt even dream of leaving a small child in the room with it on. Heck i dont even leave my house with my dryer running.
and do you leave a 7 yr old ill child alone with the space heater? I hope not.
Please READ THE LINK BELOW for how to operate an electric heater safely. For some strange reason, my prior post was flagged for review. Unreal, seeing as how it actually contained useful information.
You don’t run a space heater unattended. You don’t run it plugged into an extension cord. And you don’t do both of those things and leave a sick child alone in a room where it is running.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/098.pdf
The link is very informative. I will no longer run it while sleeping or use it in a small bathroom. I thought that they were safe these days, but apparently they are not.
Rest in Peace little one. I’m sure you will be missed very much. So sad that you had to leave so soon but, I’m sure there is a reason.
They’re doing a life sentence for this as it is. No “punishment” could be greater than theirs. It’s so sad all around.
Unfortunately the child is dead and he was not responsible for it
I understand what you’re saying.
The BDN should never give even one ignorant person the chance to make a hurtful comment about stories like this. Leave these people alone in their grief.
it isn’t a matter of “hurtful comments.” It is what it is.
And you are what you are.
Just why should there be any charges?
This is the most all around heartbreaking story for the year I’ve been here.
there should be charges because the parents neglected the child. They left him in an unsafe environment, left a young child alone when he was ill, there was a fire and the child died. It is pretty straight forward.
How do you know he was “alone”? According to the grandmother, he was within 5 feet of her home. She was in the home. In my house, my son’s bedroom is actually more than 5 feet from my bedroom. If my house catches on fire, am I a negligent parent? Some people are just too quick to pass judgment. God forbid something ever happen to YOUR child, if you have them. My heart goes out to these parents.
I bet in your home you have smoke dectors right? so if a fire happened to occur, you’d hear them go off and could get him out safely. First it’s illegal to have full time residency in something other than a house, trailor home or apartment in the state of maine. Second, a camper doesn’t have smoke dectors or proper ventalation for use of a space heater. I’m thinking there should be some charges to the parents for at least living in an unsafe dwelling.
Bring charges against someone for being poor?
Five ft. within the same walls allows one to hear if a child is coughing, throwing up, etc. Would she had been able to hear if he was having a hard time with him being out in the trailer? The child was sick I wonder what the reason was for having him stay out there by himself. I’ve had to take my kids when they were small to spend the day with their grandparents when they were sick, they laid on their couch where they could be watched and pampered when they were not feeling well. I know that someone was watching over the trailer, but the little guy was sick and no one could have heard him if he yelled out for them. I’m not putting blame anywhere it was an accident — just pointing out that a building set aside from the main house does not offer the same access to a child as if he’d been in a bedroom or on the couch in the main house.
WABI is reporting that donations are being accepted to cover the cost of the funeral.
“Checks can made out to the Thompson Funeral Home and mailed to the home at 17 Hudson Road, Corinth, ME 04427.
Please write Christian Rand Funeral Expenses on the memo line.”
I’ve been reading through the comments here. First of all, what does it mean to leave a child “alone”? His grandmother was in a house within 5 feet of the camper that the child was in. In my house, our child’s bedroom is MORE than 5 feet away. Think about this before you pass so much judgment. Sure, almost all accidents are preventable. So what do we do? Put our children in a shell and never let them live? This family is suffering enough without the ignorant comments that have been posted here. Unless you know the facts, butt out…Really.
He was living in a CAMPER (which is illegal) with a space heater on (which are meant for well drafted areas), no smoke dectors (which the grandmother could have heard and saved the boy). Your house has smoke dectors, and if it doesn’t, then you really need to go out and buy some. I feel bad for the family and even worse for the boy, but they should have known better than to live in a camper, and to leave him in the camper when he was sick. why couldn’t he have stayed in with his grandmother?
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Have you read all the articles about this? Smoke detectors would have been too little, too late. According the State Fire Marshall, if an adult had been in the camper with him, they would have died, too.
Most people know that living in a camper isn’t an ideal situation, but it’s better than being homeless.
I am so happy to know that there are so many people out there that are PERFECT parents! (Yes, sarcasm was intended) Have none of you ever gone to take a shower while your infant/toddler napped in a room that was upstairs and more than 5 feet away? Gone out to mow the lawn? I wish we could all say that we have the opportunity to keep our kids in our line of sight 24/7, but the reality is… the real world responsibilities still exist for those of us that don’t have the luxury of paying someone else to do it! These people made a tough choice in hard economic times. Would being in a homeless shelter, where the kids would be exposed to pedophiles and who knows what else, have been a better choice? I don’t think so. They tried to do the right thing by keeping the kids close to family that could help take care of them. Even the fire marshal said that the only thing that would have been different, had a parent been with him, was that the parent would have died too. Do you think that would have been an easier situation for the older child? Think about it….
anyone else take a class in logic?
““After consulting with the district attorney’s office, investigators say
no charges will be filed against the parents,” Stephen McCausland,
spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety”
here is the problem. if the cause of the fire can not be determined, that means it could be accidental OR it could be intentional, or it could be negligence.
Perhaps it is 99.99999999999999% most likely accidental, without a cause of fire, it still means no charges is a premature decision from the da’s office
I didn’t see anywhere that the parents were on methadone, nor did I see that their “appointment” which kept them away from their sick son was at a methadone clinic.
If I missed that information I would appreciate you telling me where I can find it.
the one and only point anyone needs to understand.. and from what ive seen most cant see past their own ignorance to realize… is that a child is gone, plain and simple. i can guarantee that no one on this list or any other, wants to see their child’s name…. on a tombstone
So if your at the Crack House…oh I mean Methadone Clinic and you leave your kid unattended and something happens to the kid you get a bye? I for one am a taxpayer that is sick and tired of handing everything to addicts.
Seriously……as a parent who has lost a child due to NATURAL CAUSES children are precious and gifts cherish them and every moment with them.
Okay so if they are not at fault then what happen to the other 3 children that have died ???????????????