The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 6: Mens Rea
Page 7: Situations

Here’s Clyde. He’s an exterminator called to deal with a rat problem at a store next to the local nursery school.

Clyde in “no rodent” hat giving thumbs-up. School, playground, and bodega in the background.

He knows he ought to be more careful, what with kids nearby, but he’s in a hurry to get home to watch the game, and he just flings pellets of rat poison all over and drives off.

Clyde flinging pellets all willy-nilly. Higgledy-piggledy, even.

Little girl about to take a bite out of a poison pellet.

One of the pellets lands in the nursery school playground, where little Bonnie shoves it in her mouth. She dies, of course.