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every parent's worst nightmare
Some perspective: a resident of the community around the zoo (a neighborhood identified by many with poverty and violence more than its proximity to the zoo) said he was worried about his children going outside, not going to the zoo.
Also, it appears Little Joe didn't just snatch up the child randomly- she was being held by an 18-year-old who was trying to hold the pavillion doors closed so that he couldn't escape. Whether that was good judgment or not on her part, it is somehow a little less alarming that he would strike out at someone he believed was fighting with him than to think of him roaming the park like a predator comitting random violence. And I have to believe that in a match between gorilla and 2 year old, she would have been much more badly hurt (she was released from the hospital with some bruises and stitches) if he really was trying to harm her.
I know its terrifying for her and her family, but there's talk around Boston of euthanizing Little Joe, and I think someone's got to stick up for him.
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