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The recent case with the woman getting her hair done for 3 HOURS, while her 6 mon old, and 3 yr old BAKED in her hot car is, to me, a clear case of murder.

....however, just yesterday, I heard they had reduced her charge to 'involuntary manslaughter' because she didn't intend to kill her children.

Will someone PLEASE explain to me how anyone....anyone....much less a mother....leave little kids in a hot car for 3 hours..........and not call it what it is.....murder!

I think you've hit on what the differential in the cases should be.

The woman who had her hair done, knowingly left those kids in the car. That adds up to murder in my book.

However, this woman in the story claims she thought she had dropped the child off at daycare, so it doesn't look like she intended to leave him in the car.

The difference would be the same as in a pool death of a child. If the child was thrown into the pool, yeah, that's criminal. If the child wandered out of the house, and happened to fall into the pool, then I'd call it an accident.

Truth is, most parents at some point in their life have lost track of their kids. (Even Mary and Joseph lost track of Jesus and later found him in the temple.)

My folks left one of us at church one time, and didn't realize it until they got home. I lost my son in a store once when he was small, he was hiding in the clothes rack. (my favorite Mercer Mayer kids book is "Lost in the Mall", where the child, after wandering off comes to the conclusion that his mother is lost in the mall.)

So the cases would have to be discerned on intentional neglect vrs. accidental, IMHO.

I live in surburban Detroit, where the 3-hour hairdo cost 2 young children their lives. The mother said to detectives that she was "too stupid" to know that they would die if left in the car...lawyer used it as her defense. The paper today said while waiting for her hairdresser, she had a leg massage, tried on a dress and bought some snacks for herself. After discovering her dead children, she drove around for 3 hours, car filled with vomit and the bodies,before concocting a lie about rape and abduction. She later recanted.

When asked last week by the judge how she supported herself, she replied "her student loans".

Anyone seen any mention of a father(s) for these children? I have niether heard nor read anything locally about father(s). Additionally, this woman is pregnant again.

15 years for involuntary manslauter is not enough...