Posted on 06/07/2005 1:10:14 PM PDT by SamFromLivingston
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- A 3-year-old boy died after being left in a day-care van for hours while the temperature was in the 90s, and the driver was charged with manslaughter, police said Tuesday.
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I hate that this happens.
Prayers.
How terrible.
Car manufacturers need to make something that will alert drivers when a kid is left in a van or car. Car seats that would plug/snap into something that made a noise, or SOMETHING.
Damn! Argh.....why, why, why???
Good idea. I don't understand how this happens so many times. I would think people would remember they left another person behind in the car, without needing to be reminded, but if such a gadget will help them remember, then I am all for it.
A jury ruled against a car manufacturer in a case like that, saying ventilation was inadequate, and that they should have provided some sort of failsafe. Ridiculous, if you ask me. Someone forgets and leaves a kid in a locked car, and it's the car manufacturer's fault?
They don't "count heads" when children get on or off a bus anymore? Drivers don't do end-of-run checks anymore?
That poor, poor child, and now a family shattered because of some incompetent boob. I remain convinced that day care centers offer nothing of value in the live of a child or his/her family.
And here in RI, day care workers are trying to get Unionized!
What is with the five hour delay in notifying the police????
Poor little boy, left to suffer and die alone, probably crying for his mommy. Breaks my heart and makes me want to break someone else upside the head. As a southern saying goes, "They need killin"
Maybe the parents have something to do with this as well.
The Driver is an imbecile. No device will ever fix stupidity.
The parents might be stupid as well.
These cases are always so bizarre to me. I don't know how anyone could forget they have a kid in a car. How is that possible? Is it drugs?
The driver deserves imprisonment, but why should the negligent parents get off scot free?
The guy probably didn't park until 4:00 - the article says he missed the 3:00 stop for the deceased, but finished the rest of his rounds.
That means the little boy might have been alive until 5:00 or even 6:00.
Surely two hours (3:00-5:00) is long enough for a mother to wait to see her 3 year old child before freaking out and making frantic phone calls?
Or was someone else at home while the mother was at work and that person didn't notice or care that their young charge did not arrive?
I don't understand why a car manufacturer hasn't come up with this already. They could market it as the "safe car" and have a kid feature you could turn off. Snap the car seat (and they could sell those too) into a thing that shrieks if if is still snapped in when you open the driver's door.
We do not have children, just pets. We have a quiet elderly dog that rides in the back in a cage when we go hiking (we live next to the Gettysburg battlefield). I am terrified I might forget him and leave him in the hot garage, and go out of my way to remember him.
What a sad story.
They think everyone is ready to baby sit.
I would argue that it is the responsibility of the van driver, since the kids are in his charge, to tour the van before exiting it to ensure no kids were left aboard. It would only take 10 seconds. That should be, and probably is, SOP.
Wonder how you pronounce that.
All part of the minimum wage-ization of America: you get what you pay for. Sad.
It's summer again......
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