PA Town Official Steps Down Over Remarks on Pregnant Woman’s Death

EARL, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania town official has given up a municipal job over online comments he made about a pregnant woman who died along with her 9-year-old son when her car was swept away by flash floodwaters. Earl Township Supervisor John Hetrick stepped down Monday from his appointed position as the town’s emergency management coordinator. In the now deleted post he made on the emergency management’s Facebook page, Hetrick wrote that almost everyone who dies in their car in flooding did so because they “made a very bad choice.” Critics called the post insensitive. Hetrick says he wasn’t trying to blame the woman, but wanted to spread the word about potential dangers in such situations.


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