No they’re not... they involve circumstances of carelessness and that’s what happened with this guy. Ever heard of muscle memory. When someone is used to doing something a certain way they can easily end up forgetting they have a child in the back seat. Especially if the kiddo is asleep. It happens a lot. A lot of time they’re absolutely about negligence... a parent intentionally leaving a child to go drinking or something... but there are those cases where it’s far removed from negligence. This appears to be one of those cases.
I think what can also happen is that he went on auto-pilot while driving and then got to work thinking he had dropped them off (maybe remembering previous days), when really he blanked and didn’t realize it.
Crap on your stupid cover story.