23 children die in India after eating pesticide contaminated food

[2timer]

50 children aged 2-12 fell sick almost immediately after eating food at a school prepared with cooking oil filled with pesticide. They were taken to the hospital where 23 children later died:

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/p...ae0380-f463-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_story.html

I'm sure the principal didn't cause this intentionally, but I'm glad she was arrested and will likely spend her life in prison. Someone's head had to roll for this.

 

[JTsyo]

I was going to blame the cooks but seems they got sick and had children that died too. Seems the principal might have pocket some of the money and gotten cheap/tainted food.

 

[Sonikku]

Yeah but the parents made a killing on this deal.

Like $3500 each.

That's like a trillion dollars to them.

 

[Jaskalas]

That'd make one horrific act of terrorism.

 

[D1gger]

Bihar's chief minister, Nitish Kumar, vowed that police would investigate the poisoning incident from all possible angles.
"It does not appear to be mere coincidence or negligence," he told reporters after Kumari's arrest. "Police investigation will reveal everything."

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I found this quote to be interesting. Is he implying that it was intentional?

 

[woolfe9998]

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I found this quote to be interesting. Is he implying that it was intentional?

Yeah I thought that was interesting too. He might be saying that this is something like "recklessness," which in American law is somewhere in between negligence and intent. It means consciously disregarding a known serious risk, like when driving drunk. Or maybe he does mean it was intentional. I don't know much about their legal system.

 

[xBiffx]

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I found this quote to be interesting. Is he implying that it was intentional?

How else would pesticide make it there? Of course this was intentional.

 

[EagleKeeper]

How else would pesticide make it there? Of course this was intentional.

I was going to blame the cooks but seems they got sick and had children that died too. Seems the principal might have pocket some of the money and gotten cheap/tainted food.

It was not the food that was bad. It was the cooking oil.

Thinks of good potatoes and chicken being cooked in oil at McDs.
Oil is contaminated which affects the good food.

In this situation, an entrupenier collected used cooking oil from restaurants and stored/sold it to the school.

More than likely the oil was poured into an empty drum. This time the drum was not clean and originally had pesticides stored in it.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Dang, I wish we had Tea Party small government so those sorts of things could happen here as well. Makes for better news than Faux News scandals like Benghazi.

 

[DCal430]

Scary to think that these same pestacides are used on our foods even in the U.S.

Remember hundreds of thousands of people die from organophosphate poisoning each year, one of the most toxic substances, and you spray it onto our foods.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Obviously they should just cut the food aid program that feeds 120 million children or otherwise they might die of food poisoning instead of just merely starving. Think about all the *dead children*!

 

[Greenman]

Dang, I wish we had Tea Party small government so those sorts of things could happen here as well. Makes for better news than Faux News scandals like Benghazi.

You really are one sick motherfucker.