In a car brained society, so something like the US, prosecutors will often sympathize way harder with the car driver than anybody else unless there's two of them involved.
They can see themselves whoopsy-ing a child to death in their car much more than they can see themselves having children or alternatively not keeping those children imprisoned until they can drive their own cars or being somewhere where "this sort of thing doesn't happen."
Sometimes it's a bit more subtle, like here, but surprisingly often prosecution or even the judges will just directly come out and say such things. It's just most car "accidents" don't make any sort of national or even regional news on account of how ubiquitous they are so it's mostly buried in boring ass local court files.