Four kids? She probably had all she could do just to take care of the kids she had. Completely forgot the baby.
She ran out of Target leaving her other kids inside alone. She’s a questionable mother, to put it mildly.
I left my then three year old son strapped into his car seat in the parking lot and went into the store once. The ex-BIL and I were talking as we got out and I completely forgot about him. I was there for all of a minute before I realized he wasn’t with me.
I come by it honestly, though. My parents drove home from church once with the other two kids and left me behind in the nursery and didn’t figure it out until they got home.
I live in the Phoenix area. With 112 F as the ambient temperature, the interior temperature of a car skyrockets immediately after you turn the AC off. The car becomes noticeably, dangerously hot very quickly.
Four kids is not too many to keep track of. I don’t know how a mother could possibly forget about her baby under the circumstances. My theory: she was impaired from drugs, alcohol, both.
My mom had four kids and a husband in Vietnam... but she never left one of us in the damn car.
I surprised one of the 3 others kids didn’t ask... where’s the baby.