Letting A 7-Year-Old Die

As Jeremy Strohmeyer goes on trial in Nevada for the killing of a seven-year-old girl, many are protesting that someone else whould also be on trial, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

David Cash may have been able to stop the killing but he didn't. On the Berkeley campus, Cash is being called the Bad Samaritan who let little Sherrice Iverson die.

Cash says he left the restroom as his friend Strohmeyer began to molest the little girl. But he told no one what was happening to Sherrice Iverson. Minutes later she was dead.

In a radio interview Cash showed a shocking lack of regret.

"I do not know this little girl," he said. "I do not know starving children in Panama. I do not know people that died of disease in Egypt."

David Cash broke no laws. There is no requirement in Nevada that witnesses must report a crime.

"There is not chance that I will go to jail simply because I have done nothing wrong," said Cash.

Now Sherrice Iverson's mother and her supporters are campaigning to have Cash expelled from Berkeley.

Their anger is being stoked both by what David Cash didn't do and by what's he has done since -- his refusal to intervene and subsequently his apparent belief that he did nothing wrong.

Cash taunted his classmates from a limousine when his high school showed disapproval by banning him from the prom. Now he's at Berkeley studying nuclear engineering.

For Sherrice Iverson's mother, it is a painful irony that David Cash is realizing his dreams while Sherrice never will.

Reported by John Blackstone
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