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you know, i really doubt that anyone does this even slightly on purpose. we're all so ****ing busy that we get scatterbrained and **** up. it just makes me sick, because i know that there probably won't be a day between now and death that the parent won't think about this and agonize over it. you want to know what hell is like? get exhausted, overworked, and scatterbrained, and **** up like that. it's just a ****ing awful tragedy when this happens, and i hate reading about it.
"I'm sorry your honor. It's just that I was so busy and I forgot him in there! With all this work I'm doing, I'm so scatterbrained!"
Judge's most probable response (in his mind), "What a load of ****ing horse-****. You're ass is getting thrown in jail."
Most people's response, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That you try and rationalize for something like this is almost ****ing inferior.
I have a dog. He goes with me whenever I can take him. That means when it isn't too hot to leave him in the truck or I leave him with the wife for protection. I always remember that my dog is in the truck. I have never forgotten once. I don't understand how one forgets a child. I can only imagine the physical agony this kid went through.
I also can't believer people try to rationalize it. It is sad what our society will tolerate or empathize with.
I think car seats should be designed for infants in the front seat. There are other options than the two you demand.
Actually, most parents don't get charged if they do something like this unless there are other circumstances, such as suspicious behavior beforehand or drugs or alcohol involved.
Nope, not in a million years can I see any justification to this. Not at all. I have 3 kids and there was never a moment that I forgot about their existence. You would have to believe that her daughter never crossed her mind even one time in that 8 hour period. Impossible. If I ever did forget my kids in their car seats- which I wouldn't - for the love of ****ing god, at some point during my day I would have thought of them, and then realized that I didn't remember taking them to daycare or their nannies, and that would have jolted me to the point I would run out and see where they were.
This stupid bitch. I hope this haunts her until the day she dies. I'm sorry for not being sympathetic, but as a mother, to have this happen is as likely as finding Elvis Presley standing in my closet.
You've stated the prosecution quandary well.Yeah, what would be the point in charging unless it was intentional? Punishment? They have already received the worst punishment imaginable. Deterance? If the threat of killing one's child didn't stop the accident why would the threat of jail time?
She could have believed that she dropped off her kid wherever the kid was supposed to be. Some people have issues remembering things and even remember things wrong. They think they did something one day because they did it the day before. Or they don't remember they were supposed to do something different this day than they normally do. Not everyone's memories work the same.
Seems an easy fix might be to just tie something to your inside door handle so when you open the door, it serves as a reminder.
Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.
Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.
The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.
And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.
At one point I had 3 kids under the age of 5, a full time job, and a husband who travelled 20 weeks of the year. I was absolutely a mess every day. The oldest 2 went to a nanny, the youngest to a day care by my office. I could barely keep my eyes open and getting 3 little ones ready for the day, plus myself, plus taking care of the dogs before we left, driving through snow and rain, and i never once forgot them, or their diaper bags, or their food, or their bottles, or anything else.
Anyone who forgets their child in a car is not scatterbrained. They are selfish.
Yeah, what would be the point in charging unless it was intentional? Punishment? They have already received the worst punishment imaginable. Deterance? If the threat of killing one's child didn't stop the accident why would the threat of jail time?
She could have believed that she dropped off her kid wherever the kid was supposed to be. Some people have issues remembering things and even remember things wrong. They think they did something one day because they did it the day before. Or they don't remember they were supposed to do something different this day than they normally do. Not everyone's memories work the same.
Then a) if she realized that her memory stinks before she had children then she should not have had children.
And b) if she realized this after she had children then she should have made sure she was NEVER alone with them for any appreciable length of time.
Besides, IMO, you would have to be galactically stupid to forget for one minute that your child is alone in a car...let alone on a hot day. Let alone long enough for the poor little one to die.
This woman is either staggeringly stupid or she did not love her child unconditionally or both.
I prey this stupid and/or selfish bitch never has a child again and I do not even begin to care how much suffering she is going through because of the death of her child.
700 of the poor little ones in the last 20 years. Every time I hear this I can't get the thought out of my head of the suffering slowly before succumbing.
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school
In case it is absolutely clear:
It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness.
The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.
This should be a murder charge, or at the very least, manslaughter. There is no excuse for 'forgetting' a child - or a pet - in a car. None, zilch, zip, nada.
Well there are too many infants dying in the back seat, and I never read about any dying from an accident in the front seat in a proper infant seat the entire time I had children who rode in the front seat in child/infant seats which spanned about 8 years between my two children. And I NEVER heard about a child being left in the car to die in the heat, not one. Since the move of seats to the back, there are 4 or 5 a year of the latter.True, but I just can't see how the safest child seat designed for the front will ever be as safe as the safest child seat designed for the back. The closer you get to the front of the vehicle and that noncollapsible engine block the lower your odds are in a head on collision. No matter the design the safest spot, statistically speaking, will be the rear center seat, followed by a rear passenger seat. I could be wrong.
Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school
In case it is absolutely clear:
It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness.
The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.
Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.
Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.
The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.
And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.
Well there are too many infants dying in the back seat, and I never read about any dying from an accident in the front seat in a proper infant seat the entire time I had children who rode in the front seat in child/infant seats which spanned about 8 years between my two children. And I NEVER heard about a child being left in the car to die in the heat, not one. Since the move of seats to the back, there are 4 or 5 a year of the latter.
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