Posted on 07/20/2009 4:32:54 PM PDT by rawhide
Deputies say a Cumming woman was concerned enough to take her sick pet to the veterinarian, but left her 22-month-old son alone in a hot SUV.
Dawn Myers, 38, was arrested on charges of cruelty to children.
Deputies were called to a Cumming vet’s office on Thursday for a report of a child unattended inside a Ford Expedition, said Capt. Frank Huggins, spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.
“The child was in the car for 30-40 minutes,” Huggins said. “The engine was not running and the windows were rolled up.”
Myers took her two other children inside the vet’s office, but left the baby alone in his car seat, Huggins said.
Paramedics rescued the baby and transported him to Northside Hospital-Forsyth. He was treated and released to relatives, Huggins said.
Deputies said the temperature in the Expedition was around 90 degrees.
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But children that age/size still have to be in the back seat, just not rear-facing. It’s being in the back seat, plus the dark windows in the back seat passenger windows of many vehicles, that form the deadly combination.
When was the last time you were around a two year old? They suck up all the attention.
If it was a “forgot” situation, she must not spend much time watching the toddler.
So you’re saying that she had two kids and an animal in the front seat?
She didn’t see the two year old?
I have a new godson coming in October. He has a high energy older brother (turned three today). I might just buy that for Mom.
I would say about a hundred hits with an ugly stick, but since that has already happened. Take the kid and give it someone with the brains to raise it. And let her make license plats are something for a while.
Check out post 18.
You dont, its that simple. We raised 4 boys, and it never happened. If your kid's are your number one priority everything else takes second place. You think about them when you put them in the car, while your driving and when you get out....it becomes second nature.
Parents like the one in the article are the ones at little league games with a toddler wandering around on the other side of the field while they are talking to someone.... or they leave a restaurant and find they are missing a kid when they get home (kid's still at restaurant) because they were to busy to notice. Yes, Ive actually witnessed both of these examples.
That makes two stupid comments in a row, want to go for three!!
Maybe they saw the car there and went in a store and when they came out, 30 or 40 minutes later, the car was still there and in walking past they noticed the child inside.
Well, it took one stupid comment (post 2) to start things. Seriously, take a look at what this person said...like that is a 2 + 2 = 4 type statement NOT.
I have no idea where everybody was situated for the ride. We know the baby was left in the back seat. I’m suggesting she may have gotten the other two and the pet out of the vehicle first, knowing the baby was still there, and intending to come right back to get the baby and then got distracted and forgot the baby was still out there. The dark windows in rear passenger seats lessen the chance that a passerby will notice a child in the back seat — most vets offices have small parking areas and people coming and going pretty frequently, but if you’re not looking for a child stuck in a car, you won’t just happen to notice one in a back seat with a dark window.
Yes, two year olds demand a lot of attention, but they also sleep soundly. And she may have had a 3 year old and 5 year old and an active dog inside with her. Obviously, she was splitting her attention too many ways, but I don’t think we can jump to the conclusion that she deliberately left the baby in the vehicle all that time. I can see how it would be physically impossible for one woman to transport 3 young children, including a 22 month old toddler, and a pet, perhaps in a carrier, across a parking lot and into a vet’s office all at once. So the most likely scenario I see is that she left the baby, intending to come right back for it.
Most haven't realized (yet) that no matter how dire the situation, it can always be made worse by adding a cop.
For the most part I agree with you, but there are always exceptions to any rule.
When our 4th was a year old we had been at the grandparents house. On our way home we were going to stop at the store but one of the others was having a meltdown. So I was going to drop them all off at home and go to the store by myself. When we got to the house hubby asked at the last minute to take the baby with me. He was in the back seat when all the others got out and he fell asleep on the way there. I completely forgot that he was with me when I got there. I was in the store probably 2 minutes before it dawned on me that I had forgotten him in the car.
I am a stay at home mom and my kids are my life. Before I did this I had much that same attitude. It was completely my fault that I forgot him. But it doesn’t change the fact that you can be a great parent and have a momentary lapse of brains at the same time. I just thank God that my lapse was so minimal in the grand scheme of life.
I can agree that it’s easy to leave a child for a moment in one of those seats, as I had 4 children in the space of 5 years and 5 months. But only for a moment. Right after she locked the car and turned to her other 2, surely she noticed someone missing....
No, this is what happens when some children are made more equal than other children.
If the child left in the vehicle had even one sibling young enough to be in a car seat, how could the mother ‘remember’ to undo one car seat and ‘forget’ to undo another? Even if that wasn’t the case, the mother got all three children and the pet into the vehicle just fine, what would be so difficult about reversing the process?
so you are saying she did this knowingly. That could be as I don’t know anything about this incident.
I think the simple awareness that this can happen may help prevent it. We are all made of the same human DNA and no one has a brain that is foolproof.
I don’t know that she did it intentionally, but it is quite possible that she decided she did not want to be bothered with him, that he would be okay in the car by himself. Unfortunately, people do a lot of stupid, thoughtless stuff, and children wind up suffering. She is negligent. at the very least.
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