Was 37-year-old Dallas woman, Kariasa Thomas looking for a dream man to magically materialize in answer to her personal Facebook ad, while three-year-old Kanyce Giddings drowned just feet from where she sat with her mobile phone? Kariasa admitted to the police that she checked her Facebook page for about fifteen minutes according to a Dallas Morning News (DMN) article update, Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Fifteen minutes, minutes that may have cost the life of the daughter of her best friend. What could have been so important on Facebook that Thomas felt compelled to take her eyes off the four children entrusted to her care?
With poignant longing, Kariasa had written days earlier:
June 3, 2011 via mobile
Wuz up world im looking for black singal man that a good person and have a good heart hit me up on face book
Research of her Facebook page reveals that Kariasa had made no additional posts on the fateful day, nor had she added any likes or comments on the pages of her friends. Like Kariasa, many of her friends speak often of Jesus and love, no raunchy, sordid pages among the bunch checked. As for Kariasa, she appeared to be a shy, perhaps lonely, Facebook member who didn't post often. There apparently isn't much, if any, interaction with her Facebook friends.
However, via mobile, possibly the same mobile she used to log on to Facebook when she should have been watching four children, ranging in age from three to seven, that one post gives a heartbreaking clue why Kariasa checked the page. The police have charged her with reckless injury to a child.
DMN updates provide additional details of the sad day little Kanyance died. Kariasa is now in a Dallas jail with bond set at $25,000. On her Facebook page, there is an unidentified glamour photo image that hardly resembles the real Kariasa. The desperate ad for her dream man also remains, a haunting reminder of priorities gone wrong, perhaps aided by technology and the lure of a very popular social engine.
State legislation banning cell phone use and texting while driving is highly controversial. Imagine if there was a ban on cell phone use while watching swimming children. Perhaps that day will come; perhaps it should. In the meantime, it's unlikely the court of public opinion will be kind to Kariasa Thomas.
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