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.
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 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?
All part of the minimum wage-ization of America: you get what you pay for. Sad.
It's summer again......
This tragedy could have been prevented with the simplest routine possible - just check his van/car when he turned the engine off and locked up. Common sense is free. He was paid to keep the kids safe.
NO ONE will watch over your children as well as you.
Oh, my God. Sickening.
Not again!!!
Another season of sweltering deaths begins... (sigh)
The result of treating children like cattle.
Nothing worse than when a child suffers.
I've always drive older cars. But my son just bought a used 1997 Chrysler Concorde.
It has a rear door lock system with "child protection"
If it's enabled it doesn't matter what age you are - YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THE BACK DOORS NO MATTER WHAT. The rear doors can only be opened from the outside. The mechanism can only be enabled or disabled with the DOOR OPEN.
Could this have been the case?
Prayers for that little boy and his parents.
Every year something like this happens. {groan}
People won't leave a $5 bill on the seat of their car for 5 minutes, yet leave young people unattended in cars for much longer than that. Sickening.