Posted on 08/13/2013 12:24:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
This is that time of year where we, and other news outlets, remind you of the fatal consequences that occur when you leave your kids or pets in hot cars. But two Ohio parents now face charges after their baby died during a hot drive through Oklahoma.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that husband and wife Angela Randolph, 26, and Christopher Randolph, 28, now face charges of child neglect after their 23-day-old daughter died in the back of a car running without air conditioning on a hot day.
The newspaper says the parents were driving in a car packed with their belongings, no working A/C and only one window rolled down from Ohio to Oklahoma last week.
When they stopped at a convenience store in Ardmore, Oklahoma just north of the Texas border, they noticed their baby daughter Hannah wasn't breathing in the back seat. At a 911 dispatcher's urging they tried CPR, but the girl was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a hospital.
Authorities say they believe the girl died of heat exposure from the hot car — that day, temperatures were hovering around 100 degrees, the newspaper reports. The Randolphs were arrested a few days later and charged with child neglect. Sadly, they were just 30 miles away from their destination in Ringling, Oklahoma, where they planned to start a new life with family.
It's a sad and horrible case for sure, and it's an odd twist on the usual situation where the baby is left in the hot car. It just goes to show that an improperly-cooled moving car is just as bad as one left sitting in the sun.
We'll have to see how a jury handles this one.
Relevant to the situation are notes that the parents had the State remove previous children from these two due to neglect.
They left her in the car and lied about the circumstances surrounding the death.
What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?
I’m calling this one an accident with reservations. For instance, how long did they drive without checking the child?
/johnny
I guess they were more acclimated to it in those days
We are all really spoiled.
When SHTF we are going to have to learn and adapt very fast
My thoughts exactly!
Yawn.
It is up to the parents to provide a safe environment for their child. They didn't, and I don't believe that was an accident.
Hell I don’t use the AC now.
This story does not smell right.
Never heard this happening before.
To include the 1960s and 1970s when NO ONE had a/c in the car...
To include ALOT of hot summers.
Long enough for it to die?
I drove up to Michigan from Texas with an infant in the car and I doubt we went more than 5 minutes without checking on her.
Ahh those glorious cross country trips with 100+ air hitting you and your 3-4 siblings (sitting on the bench seat with no seat belts) in the face in the back seat.
Maybe. But I don’t doubt for a minute that a 23 day old infant could die from being in a hot car for hours at a time. Even a moving car.
I seriously doubt the parents were smart enought to know they needed to keep that poor baby cool and hydrated.
You know, I can never remember these incidences happening over 20 years ago. Either:
a) The sun’s rays are much hotter now (nah)
b) Car interior absorb radiation so much more readily (nah)
c) The incidences just weren’t publicized years ago like they are now (nah... babies dying is newsworthy in any age)
4) People are more stupid, more distracted, and lazier about tending to their charges (maybe)
Negligent homicide is when you are NEGLIGENT and someone dies. They should be charged as such. The baby is dead because they are stupid and negligent. I-personally- would lie to see people who do this sterilized so they can’t do it again.
Then I heard someone on tv say that you should put ‘something important to you that you won’t forget’ in the back seat with the baby, so you won’t forget your child! So a cellphone is important enough to not leave in the car, but a baby isn’t? There’s the problem right there-mindless parents and screwed up priorities.
Reasonable.
Left their windows rolled down. This was ALWAYS the case with us as small children.
bump
People ARE more stupid, inattentive and lazier. They are distracted by the most trivial things.
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