The Daycare House of Horrors

This story has already caused a public storm.
But what stands out most is how one-sidedly it is being presented.

Yes, the caregivers and the owner of this so-called daycare are despicable people, and they should face the harshest punishment possible.
Yes, the state authorities that failed for years to notice this hell deserve, at the very least, a serious investigation and some very hard questions about how they functioned.

But all of that is already obvious.
And if that were the whole story, this post would not exist.

I suggest looking at this case from a different angle.
From the perspective of the parents, and above all the mothers, who handed over the most precious thing they had, their babies, to this apartment of horrors that was being called a daycare.

Anyone who had seen, even for a moment, the conditions those children were kept in would have been horrified immediately.
An ordinary apartment. An old building.
More than 70 children inside.

You would not even need to inspect the whole place.
A single breath would be enough to feel the suffocating air, the dryness, and the unbearable heat pushing 40 degrees Celsius.
These are conditions unfit for children, let alone infants.

And that leads to a very unpleasant conclusion.
The children were being dropped off there like packages.
With no real desire to check where exactly the child was going.
What kind of conditions the child would be living in.
Who was responsible.
What the child was breathing. Where the child was sleeping.

The “devoted mother” simply did not have time for any of that.

Once, I was going on vacation and looking for a temporary place to leave my cat.
I asked endless questions. I requested photos. I found out who would be with him and what conditions he would be kept in.
And only then did I go see the place myself.

That was for a cat.
Here we are talking about a baby.

And that brings me to what is, in my view, the main question, one that almost nobody seems to be asking:

Where is the parents’ responsibility?

What we see here is obvious contempt for the quality of life and the basic safety of their own child.
And that is already a deeply alarming sign.
Someone who treats their baby’s basic safety this way cannot really be trusted as a parent.

At the very least, there should be public condemnation and close monitoring by the welfare authorities of families like these.
At most, every case should be examined individually.
And unless it is proven that the parents were in truly life-or-death circumstances and had absolutely no alternative,
we should be talking about fines, the loss of parental rights, and in some cases even actual prison sentences.

But what do we see in practice?
The parents are presented only as “unfortunate victims.”
No systemic conclusions. No real change.

The easiest path was chosen: punish the greedy people who wanted to make money.

The problem is that if the parents had been even a little more responsible, places like this could not have existed in the first place.
But that systemic problem was something people preferred not to see.
Which is why the next tragedy of this kind is only a matter of time.

And finally, separately.

The height of cynicism, and perhaps simply moral depravity, is what was said by the mother whose son died in that daycare:
“What happened came from Heaven. He was meant to leave this world. That is what the Holy One, blessed be He, decided.
The fact that Ari died not at home and not before my eyes is a great mercy.”

A great mercy.
That her child found himself in hell while still alive, and died there too.

The more ostentatiously righteous a person appears, the more often it turns out that what lies behind it is simple inhumanity.
Here religion is being used to justify everything:
their negligence,
their indifference,
their fatal mistakes.

As for the autopsy and the protests around it,
I believe the family has the right to object.

But for me the order of priorities is clear:
we need to care about the living. The dead no longer care.

The autopsy could have provided new information.
It could have helped prevent similar cases in the future.
It could have, at least theoretically, saved someone else’s life.

But for religious people of this type, everything is simple:
everything is said to be God’s decree.