7-Year-Old Girl Slain in Casino

So now it’s the casino’s fault that Sherrice Iverson was killed (“Slaying Fuels Debate Over Safety in Casinos,” May 29). How sad that LeRoy Iverson has chosen the tragedy of his daughter’s death to pass the blame onto someone else.

Who left Sherrice in the arcade in the middle of the night while he went gambling? Iverson’s lack of parental responsibility in this case is unconscionable, and his attempt to somehow blame the casino for his terrible mistake is merely another example of Americans’ tendency to play the victim and pass the buck.

No one could have foreseen that Sherrice Iverson would be killed, but proper parental supervision would almost certainly have prevented it. And that is the real tragedy.

JUAN ROS

Studio City

* The tragedy of the 7-year-old girl being murdered becomes more tragic when I try to comprehend what a 7-year-old is doing in a gambling casino at 3 a.m. Why, when we know of all the bad things that can happen to children, did her father allow her to go to the restroom alone? Couldn’t he take a few minutes from his gambling to go with her, or at least send her older brother to go with her?

When are parents going to realize that the world is no longer a safe place for children and most certainly a big, busy place like a gambling casino with thousands of people, some of them predators, wandering around is not a place for young children to be on their own, even for a minute.

Finally, whatever happened to the rule that said no one under 21 was allowed into gambling casinos?

DARIA CASE

Sherman Oaks