The parents of the 3-year-old child who slipped into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla enclosure on May 29 will not be charged with a crime, an Ohio prosecutor announced Monday. (A gorilla nicknamed “Harambe” picked the boy up and was subsequently shot by authorities.) The boy’s parents could conceivably have been charged with child endangerment. From the AP:
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said the child’s mother had three other children with her, and she was attending to them when the 3-year-old “just scampered off” on May 28.
The zoo’s gorilla exhibit is scheduled to reopen Tuesday; six inches of material have been added to the 36-inch-tall barrier the boy climbed over before falling into a moat.
