Sadly, an unspeakable tragedy ended up with no one somehow, legally, to blame after one mother’s three-year-old grabbed a loaded handgun out of her purse and accidentally killed himself.

That’s because the Butler County, Ohio grand jury who heard the evidence in the case decided not to charge the mother, Elizabeth Green, whose son Marques died at a local hospital shortly after the shooting on June 11.

In other words, granting a baby access to a loaded weapon isn’t unlawful? And in no way anyone’s fault?

The prosecutor in the case, Mike Gmoser, gave an absurd and somewhat wooden statement in the wake of the grand jury’s decision.

“The sheer enormity and permanency of this loss to the mother far exceeds the power of the state to punish the mother for her inattention under circumstances that should have been obvious to her,” Gmoser said in a statement.

More of the strange ruling from CBS News:

The investigation was necessary to determine the circumstances surrounding the boy’s death and any criminal conduct that may have been involved, Gmoser’s statement said. He said the investigation confirmed the boy died accidentally from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest and the mother failed to secure the firearm from her purse, where it was kept for her self-protection and found by the child.

The jury considered all relevant charges of child endangering, which were the only ones that might have applied, according to Gmoser. He said the mother had firearm training and a permit to carry a concealed weapon.