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July 16, 2008
Posted: 03:14 PM ET
NEW YORK — The Rosa case is all about young people. And we talk about young people a lot in this country. But we don’t talk about what happens to them when they get old. Take the case of Theodore Pressman who left his elderly parents in the family car for three hours while he drove his bus route. It was a hot day and his mother got out, but his father died. And now their son, who was by all accounts a devoted son, is facing up to five years in prison. All this happened in Peekskill, New York, one of countless communities struggling in the face of dying industry and a failing economy. Ted couldn’t afford to lose his job. He even lived with his parents, but as they aged he couldn’t afford the kind of help they needed at home. So he parked them in diners, coffee shops and in the car itself and went to work. It was a bad choice. But it wasn’t criminal. What is criminal is the way we treat old people in this country. Until we give our seniors the help they need, we have no right to pass judgment on their adult children. And that’s the Last Word. –Jami Floyd, In Session anchor Filed under: Jami Floyd Last Word |
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