There will be no charges brought against the parents whose 3-year-old son fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month, forcing the zoo keepers to kill a 17-year-old endangered gorilla. The father was not present on the trip, but the mother was, and authorities are satisfied with deeming it an unfortunate accident.

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“Had she been in the bathroom smoking crack and let her kids run around the zoo, that’d be a different story, but that’s not what was happening here,” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said in a press conference. “None of the witnesses interviewed described the mother as anything but attentive to her children,” he added, noting that she had “turned away for a few seconds to attend to another one of her young children,” when the boy entered the enclosure.

The zoo will not face any charges either.

Source: CBS