Should parents be held responsible over gorilla incident?

THE recent terrifying incident at the Cincinnati Zoo, United States, where a 17-year-old gorilla was killed to spare the life of a four-year-old boy who had crawled through a barrier and fell into the moat in the animal’senclosure begs many questions.

In the incident, the boy climbed through the one-metre barrier around the gorilla enclosure and the fell three metres into the surrounding moat. The gorilla dragged the boy around before emergency responders shot and killed the gorilla. The boy was not seriously hurt.