Comments on: Gorilla Killed When Child Falls In Pen

By: pat

pat — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 04:22:01 +0000

In reply to Dorna. blame has to be place so it dont happen again. mothers have to watch they kids and that zoo need to fix that hole.

By: Random White Guy

Random White Guy — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 01:48:59 +0000

Cincinnati zoo just fixed the area where the kid crawled in. They're still gettin a lawsuit.

By: Dorna

Dorna — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:11:03 +0000

I'm not sure why blame has to be placed. Oh, I forgot this is America. . . where we must litigate everything! Why can't the takeaway just be there needs to be stronger barriers in the primate area, children can and will get away even with the best supervision, and the zoo took swift decisive action to make sure a CHILD wasn't harmed or killed? Does blaming the parents make the outcome any different? Freak things happen and this was just one of those said things. Grateful to God for His covering of the child! All the "perfect" people who always get it right. . . it must be nice to be YOU!!

By: Mr. BD

Mr. BD — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:14:16 +0000

I almost didn't see this story at first. You haven't done two articles on the same day in a while DJ. But I'm glad you spoke on this. I say everybody is to blame for what happened. The child told the mother he wanted to climb into the place where the gorilla was so she should have known then to keep a eye on him. She needs to go to jail for being a bad mother. Also the zoo should be sued or something for even having a place where a child could get in the gorilla house. That gorilla is the real victim because he was just doing what a gorilla does. It's not his fault a child climbed in and the zoo had a place he could get it. It's sad he was killed but it wasn't his fault. Mother and zoo should be to blame.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:12:58 +0000

Some are blaming the mother for allowing the child to go unsupervised long enough to crawl inside an active primate pen. Some are blaming the zoo for the security breach that would even make it possible for a child to crawl inside and gain access. Others are saying that “Harambee” was actually trying to protect the child, was not a threat and should have been tranquilized instead of shot in the head. [….]

My partner and I have gone back and forth debating the very question DJ asked: "Who was at fault?"

I blame the mother, first and foremost, for being so careless and irresponsible with her young child in the first place.

I blame the zoo for failing to have taken security measures to ensure that NO child (or small person) could "crawl inside and gain access" to Gorilla World. My guess is, that's being corrected with a quickness!

I'm not blaming the zoo, however, for their decision to kill the Gorilla before he could have possibly seriously injured or killed the child – Not because he was trying to harm the child but because he didn't know his own strength while dragging the poor child around.

Just a really sad story that could've ended even more tragic.