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gangler52•

The injuries, losses and harms to the plaintiff were caused by the negligence and carelessness of the minor defendant in that a reasonable 8-year-old under those circumstances would know or should have known that a forceful greeting such as the one delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff could cause the harms and losses suffered by the plaintiff.

Aren't children allowed to be negligent and careless? Legally I mean.

Like, if an adult neglects to feed a dog that's animal cruelty, but if a child neglects to feed a dog then that's just childhood. Even if a "reasonable 8 year old" is supposed to understand that dogs need to eat to live the child just hasn't learned that sort of responsibility yet.

All the moreso with something like an over-enthusiastic hug. Not only is the child still learning restraint, he probably doesn't know his own strength. Just on a basic physical level his body is growing and changing faster than he can keep up with it. As a child sometimes you'll just lean on something and discover on the spot that it can no longer support your weight. Accidents are gonna happen.

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CallmefrancisILLkilu•

They should punish her by breaking her other wrist. What a b@tch

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LincolnImp68•

The boys mother died last year

The aunt is suing the kid, after that...

Bet someone isn't getting an invite to any more parties; or contact with the rest of the family.

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funtimesforalltimes•

Yes and I doubt he'll be shouting Auntie Jen I Love You much now either. What an ahole.

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LincolnImp68•

There is one benefit (hopefully), you can look at that family and be joyful that yours isn't as money grabbing and dysfunctional.

If however it is, well, start looking at how you divorce your family... quickly.

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funtimesforalltimes•

Yes luckily I've yet to be sued by my family but I honestly wouldn't be surprised...though I imagine it'd be hard to come up with a reason to sue someone you haven't had contact with in years. We're not divorced, just separated, ahaha. I don't talk to the bulk of them anyway.

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surreal_blue•

In Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco mentions a few examples of hypothetical useless sciences and technologies. One of them was "mechanical avunculogratulation", or the designing of machines to greet uncles and aunts. Seems like it wouldn't have been so useless after all.

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