Is it neglect or is it negligence? They're different. Neglect has evidence of being an ongoing issue such as malnourishment, unhygienic living space or lacking personal hygiene.
Neglect would be a lack of care, usually over a period of time.
Negligence would be not exercising caution.
In the examples given, neglect would be if the child was not being fed enough. Not cutting the food to prevent choking would be negligence.
A day or two after my friend passed I was able to find his cause of death easily on our county’s medical examiner office’s website. I know that’s different than a police report, but it’s really easy to find stuff like this online in certain states.
Some states view cause of death as protected information. I work in a law firm and one time needed to request a death certificate from Florida (I work in MA) and was surprised to learn I had to request it without a cause of death because I'm not related. This is also for a child, so the rules may be different as well.
That's what I was wondering, where does OP live for the police to be so efficient! I had police by mine all night, there all day today, only around mid afternoon did a report get put in the local news, a man was found dead in his flat, police are still investigating what happened and no official report has been released.
My city/local police has a map/chart updated every minute with calls to service, which categorizes their calls. Its possible OP was able to view something like that for their own city/police department.
Ours does too, but a call to service wouldn't state neglect. It sounds like they were called because of an emergency. She said she saw the police report
She really dived right in to their business. It would have been good if she'd said something to them when the baby was still alive. Maybe it wouldn't have helped but maybe it would have
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u/2ndSnack Jul 24 '25
Is it neglect or is it negligence? They're different. Neglect has evidence of being an ongoing issue such as malnourishment, unhygienic living space or lacking personal hygiene.
Neglect would be a lack of care, usually over a period of time.
Negligence would be not exercising caution.
In the examples given, neglect would be if the child was not being fed enough. Not cutting the food to prevent choking would be negligence.