Will Parents be Charged for 10-Year-Old Tractor Driver Death?  

A family is grieving the loss of their son after an incident involving a tractor claimed the ten-year-old’s life on Friday. Reports are that on August second, the child was operating the family’s tractor when he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to fall onto him. The child was rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital for treatment but would later succumb to his injuries. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says police are deliberating on how to levy charges for the incident.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“It is something we have to look at. I guess this happened in Little Belize. The ten-year-old was driving a tractor and a tractor overturned on the ten year old causing the ten year old’s life. Certainly, there’s some degree of neglect on the part of the parents, but again, we know the Mennonite tradition, there’s a history or there’s a tradition with the Mennonite that they are trained from an early age to, to work on the farm. So we have to look at it very carefully to see if there is any way we can take any criminal charges against the parents, I know that it might be difficult. One might say the parent is already suffering enough having to endure the loss of their child. So it’s a matter we must say policing with empathy. So we have to look at it from that standpoint.”