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Foster Father is Charged with First-Degree Murder after He left 10-Month-old Girl to Die in ....
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | July 31, 2014 | Lydia Warren

Posted on 07/31/2014 7:45:28 AM PDT by Cecily

A Kansas foster father who mistakenly left a 10-month-old baby girl to die in his hot car has been charged with first-degree murder. Seth Jackson's lawyer said that the felony charge was far too strict for his client, who only remembered the baby was inside the car two hours later when something on TV jogged his memory.

'Rather high for a mistake,' attorney John Stang told NBC of the murder charge, which carries a life sentence with a minimum of 20 years in prison.

'I'm not trying to say it's not a horrible loss. The death of a child is an awful thing. But this person is looking at 15 more years than someone who was driving drunk and ran into a car and killed someone.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Kansas
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To: ErnBatavia

Aw. Poor mom. I also remember the days before bucket seats - when all the kids would pile in the front seat with mother at the wheel. In those days, kids hated sitting in the backseat...because it was hot.

I also remember a time when mothers would drop off kids to school wearing only their nightgowns. There’s an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where this happens.


41 posted on 07/31/2014 8:27:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

In the old days, for the old 2-door 1955 Chevy, my dad made a wooden car seat for the baby and all of us other kids had to sit squished in the back seat.


42 posted on 07/31/2014 8:30:04 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Get rid of the backseat car seats and get the kiddies up front and see these deaths go down.

Eliminate one risk, more serious injuries and death to a child in a car seat in the front due to airbags and the dash and push the risk elsewhere. I had two children who because of work schedule I transported at least half the time, now I had forgotten articles such as diaper bags or clothing, but I never ever forgot my children.

43 posted on 07/31/2014 8:48:23 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Still Thinking

There are people who go out and kill someone with a baseball bat and aren’t charged with first degree murder.


44 posted on 07/31/2014 8:54:54 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: Cecily

Fine with me.


45 posted on 07/31/2014 8:59:45 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Mastador1

So, get rid of the airbags. Life is risk, you know.


46 posted on 07/31/2014 9:02:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Slyfox

I think my mother just laid the babies on the front seat! Of course, in those days mothers weren’t so helicopterish. Especially after the 4th or 5th one.


47 posted on 07/31/2014 9:04:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Still Thinking

Meant to say manslaughter or negligent homicide. Got finger-tied.


48 posted on 07/31/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Cecily

"Listen, dumbass! Youre mind can't be on d*ck all the time! You've got a baby to consider!"
49 posted on 07/31/2014 9:07:03 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Mastador1; miss marmelstein

Exactly.

The front passenger side airbags that are now mandated in every new car make front seat child seat use a death trap.

Here’s an idea (as you implied but I will be more blunt): if every person was an actual parent to their child and thought of their children first and not themselves, “tragic accidents” such as this would never happen.

It’s just that simple.

I mean honestly, what kind of person “forgets” they have a child, a CHILD, even if it’s in the back seat, for TWO HOURS!?

A person either high on drugs or an evil selfish person, or both. That’s who. Neither of which are proper defenses to murder.


50 posted on 07/31/2014 9:08:05 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: miss marmelstein

I used to stand up on the floor between the front seat and dash of an early 60’s Galaxie 500. I lived.


51 posted on 07/31/2014 9:09:12 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Slyfox
Parents should be able to put their babies in the front seat. Before airbags babies did not die in hot cars.It doesn't take much of an impact at all to deploy an airbag. A little fender-bender will do it. Far more children would die as a result than die because they were left in the back seat.

No, the laws about keeping them in the back only provided an excuse for murder. But I never forgot a child, you never forgot one, and it's starting to look as though states' attorneys are not buying this excuse anymore.

52 posted on 07/31/2014 9:11:02 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Sherman Logan

I may be mistaken, but I believe this is considered risen to the level of “first degree” because the death was a result of the commission of another crime, here, illegal drug use.

I could be wrong.


53 posted on 07/31/2014 9:11:12 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Then there’s no disincentive for overcharging. If I were on the jury in such a state and thought that the prosecutor had intentionally overcharged to play the odds, I’d create one. I’d vote to either convict of less than what I thought he was guilty of, or to acquit completely.


54 posted on 07/31/2014 9:15:37 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Now that I think about it, I can remember my mother screaming SIT DOWN! We all lived.


55 posted on 07/31/2014 9:19:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Sherman Logan

The much larger decrease in risk A (crash deaths) far offsets the minor increase in risk B (hot car deaths).


56 posted on 07/31/2014 9:24:09 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: FourtySeven

Well, as I’m learning since like most freepers I didn’t bother to read the article is that we have two incredibly ditzy queens who took drugs and adopted kiddies to get money from the state. Recipe for disaster, ya think? Can’t wait for the social workers’ testimony during this trial!

That being said, I am still against laws forcing kiddies into the back seat and I’m still against horrible airbags.


57 posted on 07/31/2014 9:24:17 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Qiviut
I also hate air bags. A good friend of mine - a 5’4” woman - got burned horribly when she was in an accident at the wheel of her car. No one mentions how hot those bags are.

My old momma was in a water rehab class with a bunch of other old ladies. One day an 85 year old gal said to the class, guess what I have? Black boobies. She pulled aside her swimsuit and had a horrible bruise from neck to navel from her Caddy airbag.

58 posted on 07/31/2014 9:24:58 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Cecily; Ingtar

No, that one was in Atlanta, Georgia.

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And those parents were a man and his wife.

This murderer is living with another individual who has same-sex-attraction disorder.


59 posted on 07/31/2014 9:30:08 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: eartrumpet

Ouch! At 85, she’s lucky she didn’t have some broken ribs or something more serious to go with her bruise(s).


60 posted on 07/31/2014 9:31:38 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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