" EXCUSES ....EXCUSES....EXCUSES BLAH ....BLAH.....BLAH "

" Boy, CNYMOM, you are about the most judgemental person I have ever run across. How'd you grow up in a country where the law is innocent until proven guilty? You are ready to hang someone you don't know for an accident about which even the authorities don't yet have the full details. All you know is what's been printed in the papers -- which is geared to arouse interest by being sensationalized. You certainly don't know what this woman was thinking (no one knows what she was thinking), but you are basing your condemnation of her on the assumption -- that "she wasn't thinking of anyone but herself." You don't know that. I'm not making excuses for anyone, I am merely pointing out that there MAY well be circumstances about which we are not yet aware which may explain what happened. If you were threatened by a man with a gun while you had children in your car, you, yes even You, Ms. Perfect Mother, might gun the engine and try to get away from the bad man. I know I would. I've known people who had very weird and unexpected allergic reactions to medications as well -- all kinds of things are possible. Until all the facts are in, you have no business judging others. Actually, none of us has any right to judge others, unless we are on a jury. But ye gods, woman, you've got a knee-jerk reaction there strong enough to kick a cow to the moon! Yes, there are some terrible parents out there, some of them truly deserving strong penalties for the wrongs they do their children, but you do not know that is the case here. ***----***Another thing you assume is that she is culpable because of an "irresponsible" choice. It might have been irresponsible, but it might also just have been a wrong choice -- two young men in our community were driving down the road -- not drunk, not speeding, just driving down the road. A cat ran in the road, and knowing it was someone's pet, the driver made the choice to swerve to avoid hitting the cat. That choice, an automatic act of compassion, caused him to crash the car, killing both himself and his friend. They weren't bad people, they weren't making an irresponsible choice -- it just turned out that day, that choice wasn't the right one and they ended up dead, a terrible loss of two nice young men, a tragedy. Another time, an older lady was ill and driving herself to the doctor. Not drunk, not speeding, a clear beautiful day in October. She reached down to adjust something and took her eyes off the road for a split second. In that time, her car veered slightly off the lane into the shoulder -- where she hit and killed a mother with a toddler and a baby in a stroller. She wasn't a bad person, she wasn't an irresponsible person. She wasn't feeling well and had no one else to take her to the doctor, and by bad luck chance she made the wrong choice to take her eyes from the road for a split second -- we have all done that, esp. when we have had kids in the car! And it turned out to be the wrong choice at that moment, and we lost 3 lovely people, two of them just little ones, and it was a terrible tragedy and left the woman who survived with hysterical paralysis (in the form of inability to speak) -- her life was devasted too. And she wasn't a bad person, not at all. We have a tragedy here too -- 3 young children lost, and still a mystery why it happened. What is not needed it people to judge where they don't know what they are talking about. Give law enforcement a chance to find out what happened. Maybe this mom was irresponsible and did something crazy and will go to trial for killing her children this way. Or maybe there will be some other explanation. Judge not lest ye also be judged -- not a Christian myself, but there is much wisdom in these words. "

" Farmer's Gal you can make all the excuses in the world for her... the fact still stands that she thought of no one but herself. She ended up killing 4 kids and leaving one motherless how thoughtless and selfish of a mother. NOTHING in this world would make me choose to make such an irresponsible choice that it would cost the lives of my children. "

" I'm waiting to hear more facts. Why would a woman all her friends and neighbors suddenly bolt at very high speeds with a car full of kids? I ask myself, what would make me do that? Only if I were very afraid for myself and the children if we didn't flee -- so was the police car marked? Did she know it was a police officer, or was she afraid it was a carjacking or something? Was she on some kind of mew medication which had paranoia as a side effect she didn't know about? Or had she been drinking, as has been suggested but as yet by no means proven to be sure. No matter how you slice it, this woman is already paying a high price -- her children are dead, and she will live the rest of her life knowing she is responsible for killing them. I can't think of a much worse penalty. Boy, people are so fast to judge others, and clearly without all the facts -- they had better hope for better from others than they deal out themselves should they ever find themselves in an unclear situation and a tragedy. "

" To omigosh, not only are you a bleeding heart,anti-police your also as ignorant as they come. "

" TO Omigosh, Are you for flipping real? Are you seriously going to blame the Police Officer who pursued an ignorant woman with three children in the car? He did not have time to fully assess the situation in the brief time he had her pulled over, those children could have been kidnapped. Do you think John Walsh would be anti-police pursuits if Adam had been killed in a police chase following his abduction? The only person who shoud have an unclear conscious in this matter is Ms. Parker, and I agree wholeheartedly that she should be charged with Three Counts of Murder under the new Todeschini Law. Stop trying to blame the Police for the ignorance of others. "

" Omigosh this is no way the fault of the police. She was stopped for driving erratically to begin with and whos to say already driving that way she wouldnt have crashed anyway. NO ONE made her speed off BUT HER with no thought to HER children may they rest in peace. My thoughts and prayers go out to the surviving child and family. As for Parker I hope her HELL has just begun. "

" How many more innocent people need to lose their lives as the result of police chases? If this individual was pulled over, the officer obviously already had her plate number, etc and knew she had children in the car. Instead of placing the officer, the suspect, innocent motorists and most importantly the children in danger, why couldn't they have just diffused the situation and taken her into custody at a more appropriate time? This truly is a tragedy. "

" If you want to put your own life at risk, thats one thing. But nothing in the entire world justifies putting the lives of your or any children at risk. This is a terrible tragedy. My prayers are with the children. "

" June 15th are you for real, nothing she could say can justify running from the police, and driving like an idiot with children in the car! "

" "No one should condemn Lisa without knowing the situation or the facts." Are you kidding me? If you or anyone can make a comment like that you are NOT a caring and loving parent. There is nothing in this world that can justify what she did to those children as well as her surviving child. She needs to pay dearly. "

" My sympathy goes out to the friends and family of Lisa Parker. Her surviving child 5 year old daughter, and her boyfriend. Mary's last name is Provo not Porvo! No one should condemn Lisa without knowing the situation or the facts. This is not going to help the family or their friends. Lisa loved her children. What is being reported so far is speculative...wait for the evidence before you condemn or convict someone! I am not saying Lisa's choice was right I am just pointing out that friends and family are being hurt further by what is being written and said. "

" This woman should pay the ultimate price. How could anyone put their kids, or any kids, in harms way like this? "

" It's a tragedy, so sad. "