This reads like prosecution driven by outrage at the death of a child and some perverse desire to punish someone / anyone ... but just perpetrating more injustice.

>If you thought nothing could be worse than losing a child, two days after Legend was killed, the county district attorney charged the Jenkinses with involuntary manslaughter and persuaded a judge to set bail at $1.5 million for each of them.

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Meanwhile:

>The prosecutor’s office showed more leniency in April, when a 10-year-old Gaston County girl was shot by another child with a gun the girl’s father allegedly left unsecured. Intentionally bringing a potential harm into your home seems worse than letting your children take a walk, but the father in this case is free on $50,000 bond to face felony child abuse charges.

I guess the NY Times is too chicken to say it outright, but this prosecution looks racially motivated. He was crossing the street with his brother and the driver who struck the child was not charged. (Cue comments about the technicalities of jaywalking)