Wrongful Manslaughter Charge? Yes or No, Why?
NEWS REPORTING OF WHAT HAPPENED OK OK
Ok, so I normally never post in a the discussion board.
Main reason is I don't get involved with news, etc..
This is something I see as completely wrong though that has happened to someone I know and have spent some time with and his family. I'll give some backround to what I know about him and what happened.
He is an Egyptian immigrant who moved here(U.S) with his family on a VISA. They have been living here for a few years and most of them work for the taxi company "Yellow Cab". My mother met them shortly after starting to work as a taxi driver. The Egyptian man who was arrested is about 60 years old. He was recently arrested and is being charged for neglectful manslaughter.
About six months ago, he was given a fare to pick someone up and drop them off. He drives a taxi cab (bigger van) that allows for people in wheelchairs to get in the car. The man that he is charged for manslaughtering was a guy in a wheelchair. As a taxi driver you take someone where they need to go, and drop them off. You only wait around if they ask you to. If they don't, you leave and hopefully try and get another fare. He dropped this man off at his house, who then later comes to find out died that night because his wife wasn't home to let him in. His wife didn't come home for 11 hours since he had been dropped off and when she got home she found him dead outside, next to the front door. Because of this, they are charging the taxi driver for manslaughter and set his bail to $100,000 because someone he dropped off died because no one was there to let him in the house. Is this right or wrong?
Is this neglectful manslaughter? If so from the taxi driver? The wife that wasn't home to let her husband in for 11 hours? The man who died waiting outside because he didn't have keys to his own house? Anyone at fault? Everyone in his family is completely shocked and has no clue what to do about it. Let me know what you think please and why.
Taxi driver drops off someone at their house, and the taxi driver leaves after doing so like any other fare. The guy later dies from dehydration after waiting for someone to let him into his house. His wife didn't come home for 11 hours while he was sitting outside in 100 degree F weather. When she got there, she found him dead (he had died from dehydration).
So, wife calls police. Police trace it back to who dropped him off there and "left him there". They make an arrest. Now trying to charge the taxi driver for manslaughter, as he is "at fault". The guy that died was in a wheelchair, and most likely an older guy.
Is this anyone's fault? Should the taxi driver be arrested and charged for manslaughter?
Last edited by DruggedPanda; Dec 17, 2015 at 03:21 AM.