OPINION: Wind Creek waited too long to address issue of unattended kids at Pennsylvania casino

OPINION: Wind Creek waited too long to address issue of unattended kids at Pennsylvania casino

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  • Express-Times opinion staff,
May 23, 2022 9:27 PM
  • Express-Times opinion staff,

Enacting a plan to ensure children aren’t left unattended on a casino property is a great idea, but it’s astonishing that it took 147 incidents involving 268 children over four years at one site for the plan to be developed. That’s our takeaway from the announcement this week that Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem is putting new measures in place to not only deter parents or guardians from leaving kids alone, but detecting incidents as well. To be fair to Wind Creek, Las Vegas Sands owned the casino for part of the four years assessed and deserves some criticism. Blame for the delay in not only enacting the plan, but publicly acknowledging the severity of the problem, also falls on the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

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