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Originally Posted by suburbia
The six-year-old girl passing away is a huge tragedy, and prayers are with the family BUT I cannot imaging letting a grade one aged young girl walk to school alone, let alone across train tracks. Parents are not even allowed to leave grade one students in the school field unsupervised. I'm sure they feel horrible beyond belief right now, and I feel for them.
I don't know the context of the second one, however.
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According to an article in the Herald the little girl was special needs whose home was located close to the tracks. She slipped out of the house without her parents knowledge and was struck by the train prior to them being able to locate her. Definitely tragic.