What I would like to know, is who is it that would call the cops, but not go around and find the owner of the car? It would be alot faster, I mean who else knew the child was in the car for 30 minutes but the person who called the cops.
I don’t get that.
Find the owner? Wait for the cops?
I would have called 911, informed them of the situation, and told them I was smashing a window to save the child. (Yes, I would rest easy in jail for vandalism/destruction of private property/etc. to save a child)
So instead of calling 911, you would have someone go searching for the scumbag not knowing where she was or how long the child had been in the car?
Call 911 and tell them it is an emergency makes perfect sense. They can be there in a few minutes which it would take a lot longer to find the scumbag.
You call the cops.
You wait 90 seconds.
No cops, you get two witnesses and you break a window.
When the cops arrive, you tell them you called it in, and you were the one that broke the window after waiting 90 seconds.
The only way to go if its hot out.
Maybe only the other 2 kids actually knew the baby was in the vehicle, and if they were toddler/preschool age, they probably wouldn’t think to say anything. If the vehicle was in the vet’s parking lot, and had dark windows like so many vehicles these days, it’s quite likely nobody would notice. Remember the case a couple of years ago where a hospital employee forgot a baby in a vehicle all day — baby was already dead before anybody noticed, many hours later — busy parking lot of a big hospital, and there had to be dozens of people coming and going past the vehicle, but nobody noticed until it was too late.
I’m thinking this may have been a case of forgetting, rather than intentionally leaving the baby all that time. She may have meant to get the pet and older children inside, and then go back out and get the baby, and was frazzled and underslept, and got distracted, and forgot. It happens.
We need to get rid of the back-seat-only laws (which coincided with a 10-fold increase in the rate of child deaths in hot cars) and people with young children should avoid having vehicles with dark windows. The combination of these two factors is really deadly.
Most haven't realized (yet) that no matter how dire the situation, it can always be made worse by adding a cop.