Posted on 09/04/2019 7:25:42 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Foster mother is charged over death of one-year-old boy who was left in hot car at shopping mall while she worked inside
A foster mother has been charged with the death of a toddler who died after being left in a hot car at the mall last week.
Dawn Aberson-Vanden Broecke, 42, was charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter.
On August 29, she left the baby boy, who has not been named, in the parking lot outside Lowes at a shopping center in Pineville, North Carolina.
Temperatures soared into the 80s and the boy died as a result.
According to police, Broecke works inside the store.
It is unclear how long the boy was left inside the vehicle but she called 911 at 5pm.
When a police dispatch called for medical help, they said the mother had told them the baby had been in the car 'all day'.
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The best way to prevent this kind of accident is to place something you value in the back seat.
[The best way to prevent this kind of accident is to place something you value in the back seat.]
Like a baby?
Sue the car dealer who sold her the car. Seems responsibility is someone elses fault; they do it to gun companies and dealers.
CORRECT.
So she gets paid for fostering, goes to work and leaves the kid in car? Probably too cheap to pay for a sitter.
Hah, I was literally going to write this reply. Cheers! What is more valuable than a baby?
Obviously the poster meant something that you never leave the car without regularly, like a purse or a smartphone, but still...
Besides a human being?????
Sheesh.......
Only if you don't care about them.
I hope they hang her. RIP poor little one, you deserved far better.
Murderer!
Blame smart phones and social media. As soon as the car stops, the driver reaches for their addiction device, to check if they’ve gotten any messages. So distracted, they walk off without their child. Heaven forbid, somebody should go for more than a few minutes without checking FB, Instagram, or Twitter. Or making sure nobody texted them. Just have to check one last time before starting work. You never know, somebody could post a ubiquitous cat photo that must be viewed immediately or dire things might happen.
I sat near a young couple at a play recently. As they sounded the bell for everyone to take their seats, the woman told the man she was going to silence her phone. He about hyperventilated. He was asking if she was sure she wanted to do that, what if there was an emergency, what if somebody needed to get in touch, or had something important. Mind you, she didn’t say turn the thing off. Just silence it.
That's like blaming guns. Conservatives are about personal responsibility.
OK, blame an over-reliance on their smart phones and social media. But, the point still stands. Too many people are so engrossed in the device that’s never out of their hand, they forget that life still happens in the here and now, and not just with what’s on that little screen. Any small moment (like walking from the car to your place of employment) is perceived as an opportunity to engage with the device. From a purely physiological perspective, the brain cannot possibly process all potential input at all times, we unconsciously filter what input to process and ignore the rest. People who are overly focused on their smart phones and social media are more likely to use that as their filter, thereby unconsciously and unintentionally ignoring what’s going on around them. This includes walking into other people or objects or in front of moving vehicles. It also includes forgetting they have a baby in the backseat. Not excusing the behavior. Just stating why it happens and encouraging people to limit/monitor their usage.
People forgot things long before smart phones and social media. The back seat is the forget stuff area. I’ve left all kinds of packages and such in the car because I put it in the back seat and by the time I got home the brain had switched gears. The brain thresholds, when it crosses boundaries it has a tendency to toss “unneeded” things out. It’s why you walk into a room and forget why you went in there, you crossed a threshold and the brain decided “new room new thing”. Getting into and out of a car involves 2 thresholds, possibly more if you get to deal with tunnels or toll roads. That’s rife with opportunities for your brain to chuck stuff out. Worse if it’s a drive you do all the time and you want to vary your routine (like you don’t normally go to this destination with the kid). I once drove past 3 ATMs on the way to work, remembering as it was too late each time I meant to hit an ATM, forgot, remembered, forgot, remembered, forgot remembered. We are imperfect pieces of meat.
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