I was reading about that woman who got caught in the flood and had her baby ripped out of her arms by the water. She made some poor but all-too-imaginable mistakes that lead to that situation happening (she saw people driving down a road, so she assumed it was clear, and then the water came fast, and she was stuck), and she's so young, and clearly was devoted to her baby. She's now been charged with involuntary manslaughter (which is the same as you'd get for like killing someone because you're DUI.) 

I get why they have to, but on the other hand, it seems pointless. She's already wrecked. What more could the state do to her? It seems a bit cruel to subject her and her family to that. 

I thought the same about that story about the woman who crossed the street with her kids outside a crosswalk (because going to the crosswalk would have been an extra half mile walk), just a one time decision that everyone's made a time or two, that went horribly wrong when a drunk off his ass dude (who had several previous DUIs) going like 100mph in a residential area plowed into them, and her 4 year old died. He got off with basically NOTHING and last I heard, she was going to jail. That's screwed up.