it is a tragic loss. i feel for you.
1. you need keys to get into the trunk in the first place. how did they get them?
2. i KNOW where my kids are at all times. how did they remain missing for so long?
3. the trunk safety release is only usefull if you know its there and how to use it. chances are, even if the car had one, there is very little chance an 8 or 11 year old kid would have had the insight to look for one, or figure out how to operate it in the pitch back confines of a trunk. probably wouldnt have helped.
their parents failed them. we are stewards of all that God gives us. nothing really belongs to us. not money, not property, not even our own children. we are just stewards given the opertunity to take care of what we were given.
they were poor stewards. blaming the auto industry or the government for not making safety latches is just denial. they failed their children, and God took them back.
i feel for them. there can be nothing more grevious than the loss of a child. even worse wil be knowing they didnt do enough to prevent it. there is no worse torture known to man. the children are beyond all pain and suffering now. beyond any possible hardship known to man. their parents, however, will be tortured for the rest of their lives. may God help them.