Louisville
resident Bonnie Lawrence says she felt electricity coming
through her 5-year old son's body when she touched him
after he collapsed at a baby sitter’s house in 2002.
Isaac was killed after
he played in a sprinkler and then touched a metal door
on a garage that had been improperly wired without a
permit. The contractors weren't indicted, the city couldn't
be sued, and Lawrence said she was told repeatedly that
her son's death just "fell through the cracks."
"I don't want there to be any more damn cracks,”
said Lawrence, who spent the last year fighting for
a new law toughening penalties for electric contractors.
"My 5-year-old innocent firstborn child died the
way we punish our most heinous criminals," she
added. "It makes me sick."
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