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.
Poor people have poor options.
Poor people make poor decisions.
That's too bad. Now if there was only a way that they could have avoided traveling under the rays of that pesky sun. Hmmm . . .
That too.
Ahh those glorious cross country trips with 100+ air hitting you and your 3-4 siblings ...
Guess my parents would end up in jail today. We always drove from Kansas to California every summer in a pick-up truck and all the kids rode in the truck bed. No seat belts, helmets, knee pads. Amazing that we all survived.
Another Arizona tip: Drink water—lots of it.
Start drinking water long before you go out in the heat.
Bring more water than you need and keep drinking water throughout the day.
The rule of thumb is: If your pee is dark, you’re not drinking enough water.
Negligent homicide usually revolves around inaction, intentional revolves around action. It’s the difference between NOT doing something that could have prevented death and DOING something that caused it. Which is why negligent carries lighter punishment.
The only way to get AC until I was a teenager was at the movies.
When my now adult children were babies, they rode in the front seat right in the middle in a sling-type car seat which hooked over the back of the front seat. They were just fine and you definitely couldn’t overlook them. Much easier to attend to.
How do you prove stupidity is only connected with negligence.
Actually, babies left in hot cars is one of the modern media's minor hobby horses. It combines with their other minor and major hobby horses to create a society fearful of all sort of risks and susceptible to nanny state regulation.
You never used to hear about babies left in hot cars back in the day, although I'm sure it must have happened. As for babies driven across country in cars without air conditioning, that was routine.
You don’t have to. The failed to act, that was negligent. Maybe they failed to act because they’re stupid, maybe they failed to act because they’re sleaze. Lacking proof of active verb the most you can get is negligent homicide, if you get proof of active verb you go higher.
“When SHTF we are going to have to learn and adapt very fast”
Or...
die hungry, hot and fast
Two other children taken away by the state in Ohio. Ok, fine, their A/C didn’t work but who drives in 100 degree temps with just one window rolled down? Who doesn’t check on their newborn every few minutes and have a wet cloth to wipe him down? There’s more to this story.
So. Kindly tell me where, exactly they are supposed to put the child? Tie them on the roof? The damned law precludes keeping the child where it would have been obvious that the child was in distress--in front with the parents. But you want to hang the parents for going by the law (probably out of fear of getting nailed with a ticket they could not afford). Go ahead, pal, kick them while they are down. What goes around comes around.
Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy.
Something for which there is absolutely no evidence. You just make things things up as you go, or what?????
We used to get chased away from the ice cream coolers at the store...
Sometimes they don't have much to choose from--bad or worse.
My mom grew up in the age of ice coolers. She said it was a real treat to go out to meet the ice wagon (horse drawn) once a week and the ice man always made sure he had plenty of shavings for the kids to grab. The only thing REALLY cold they got to have.
Except in the winter (Minnesota), then there was plenty of cold and ice to go around!
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